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How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team

Former employees say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality weakened the unit in the years following the onset of the fracking boom. The operation never returned to what it was before.

by Dylan Baddour and Peter Aldhous

Keep Reading

Big Leaks, Little Regulation

by Sheila Serna

Illegal Air Pollution is Skyrocketing in Texas, But State Regulators are Ignoring Complaints

by Amal Ahmed

One Texas-Sized Loophole is Letting Lone Star Polluters Off the Hook

by Naveena Sadasivam

Sep 29, 2013

‘Both Sides’ Heard at Climate Change Panel

by Forrest Wilder

Apr 11, 2013

Whooping Cranes Lawsuit Could Change Texas Water Rights

by Priscila Mosqueda

Feb 25, 2013

Lawmaker Wants to Limit Challenges to Harold Simmons’ Radioactive Waste Dump

by Forrest Wilder

Feb 19, 2013

State Government Hoarding, Not Spending Clean-Air Money

by Liz Farmer

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Jan 11, 2013

“We’re the Good Guys”: Conservatives Make the Case for Free-Market Environmentalism

by Forrest Wilder

Rick Perry Nov 27, 2012

No Experience Necessary: Rick Perry’s Made Men

by Forrest Wilder

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