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Environment

I Remember the 2002 Fourth of July Hill Country Floods. This Year, the Water Returned.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

by Chaney Hill

Keep Reading

Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains that Led to Devastating Hill Country Flood

by Arcelia Martin

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

by Henry D. Jacoby

‘With What Water?’

by Chilton Tippin

May 21, 2024

Want to Build a Wall? Don’t Try It in Her Town.

How a Laredo activist and her scrappy environmental group have fought back against powerful interests in South Texas

by Justin Miller

May 13, 2024

Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta

An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.

by Dylan Baddour

Apr 25, 2024

Texas Exotic Hunts Are Dangerously Unregulated

Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.

by Amber Gobell

Apr 23, 2024

The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway

Does the state parks agency serve the people, or corporate interests?

by Lise Olsen

Apr 18, 2024

‘Forever Chemicals,’ Religion, and Family Tragedy in Texas

PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.

by Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn

Apr 17, 2024

The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview

Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.

by Christopher Collins

The sun is setting over the refineries and windmills along Nueces Bay Apr 11, 2024

Water Scarcity and Clean Energy Collide in South Texas

A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.

by Dylan Baddour

Apr 04, 2024

‘TxDOT’s Still Bulldozing Over Our Communities’

Community members say the state transportation agency is violating its agreement with the feds to reduce the discriminatory impact of its plans to expand I-45.

by Josephine Lee

A small house is dwarfed by the refinery behind it, with a smokestack spewing white smoke or steam. Mar 18, 2024

Gulf Coast Petrochemical Buildout Draws Billions in Tax Breaks For Polluters

A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project compiled data on every U.S. plastics plant built, expanded or proposed since 2012, revealing massive growth in Texas.

by Dylan Baddour

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