Environment
Good to Glow
Despite its own scientists' objections, Perry-appointed state regulators are greenlighting a massive nuclear waste dump in West Texas.
Despite its own scientists' objections, Perry-appointed state regulators are greenlighting a massive nuclear waste dump in West Texas. ...Read More
Burying the Opposition
A plan for radioactive waste burial is so bad even some TCEQ staffers think it should be killed. Fat chance.
For more than a decade, Waste Control Specialists has had big plans to build a radioactive waste dump in a desolate corner of the West Texas oil patch....Read More
Swamp Fighters
Laredo environmentalists marshal their forces to save an improbable wetland
On a soggy July afternoon, the air lousy with mosquitoes, Jim Earhart squishes through an ecological irony: a wetland in Laredo. Earhart, a 71-year-old retired ...Read More
Dennis the Menace
Angleton Republican Dennis Bonnen is perhaps the Legislature’s biggest impediment to cleaning up the Texas environment.
Texas leads the country in air pollution, hazardous waste, mercury contamination, carbon dioxide emissions, and any number of other ways you might measure a sic...Read More
There’s Not Enough
As the drought saps rural Texas, lawmakers confront a state that's running out of water
The March rains helped, no question. This time a year ago, 99.1 percent of Texas was officially in drought, classified as anywhere from abnormally to exceptiona...Read More