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Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes, Dread Across San Antonio Subdivision

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.

by Martha Pskowski

Keep Reading

Dammed if You Do: East Texas Locals Fight to Stop an Unnecessary Reservoir

by Jake Robbins

How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team

by Dylan Baddour and Peter Aldhous

Big Leaks, Little Regulation

by Sheila Serna

In a new report, researchers write that industrial air pollution, enabled by legal loopholes and lax enforcement, was particularly pronounced in the Permian Basin in West Texas. pollution Apr 27, 2016

Report: Lax Enforcement, Loopholes Lead to Few Consequences for Polluters

by Naveena Sadasivam

Houston skyline. Mar 30, 2016

TCEQ Chairman: Reducing Smog Will Make Texans Sick

The head of the state’s environmental agency told lawmakers that lowering ozone levels will harm, rather than help, Texans.

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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