Environment
Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change
Mainstream Groups Heat Up Over ‘Racist’ Anti-Immigrant Orgs at Earth Day Texas
Groups with ties to white nationalists prompted the Sierra Club's boycott of Earth Day Texas, which was bankrolled by real estate mogul Trammell Crow....Read More
Fragile Species
Can bats survive in a human-engineered world?
Can bats survive in a human-engineered world? From the east, a fungal infection is moving cave by cave, leaving obliterated bat populations in its wake....Read More
The Texas Miracle #4: How to Die in Texas
On this week's podcast: Tips for shuffling off this Texas mortal coil, a Trinity River showdown and a prairie defilement that's nothing to sniff at.
This week on the Texas Miracle: tips for shuffling off this Texas mortal coil, a Trinity River showdown and a prairie defilement that's nothing to sniff at....Read More
Native Groups Open New Front Against Border Coal Mine
Tribal leaders say binational coal companies are mining on sacred ancestral lands.
Dos Republicas opponents hope bringing attention to the mine's effects on local tribes could open a new front in the fight against the low-grade coal mine....Read More
Big Bend Becomes Congressional Battleground
Pete Gallego’s going green in a bid to reclaim the purple district for Democrats.
Will Hurd's challenger, former congressman Pete Gallego, is going green in a bid to reclaim the deep purple district around Big Bend for Democrats....Read More
There Goes the Sun
The sun city may soon be charging residents extra for solar power, joining a growing number of utilities that treat solar as a threat to their businesses....Read More
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.
The environmental agency head told lawmakers that lowering ozone levels will not improve public health in Texas, contrary to decades of scientific research....Read More
Texas Regulators Approve Billionaire’s Plan to Buy Oncor
The deal will allow a group of investors led by real estate and oil and gas mogul Ray Hunt to purchase Texas’ largest electric transmission and distribution company.
The deal will allow a group of investors led by real estate and oil and gas mogul Ray Hunt to purchase Texas’ largest electric transmission and distribution c...Read More
Photo Essay: Floods Drown ‘High Ground’ in Uncertain, Texas
The towering old cypress trees, dripping with Spanish moss and umber water, create an almost primordial backdrop for Uncertain, Texas, a place where time seems ...Read More