Battle For Boca Chica: Activists Challenge SpaceX’s Impact On Sacred Land and Ecosystem
In Boca Chica, numerous organizations and activists are raising concerns that Elon Musk's SpaceX is endangering the land's fragile ecosystem and restricting access to...
Hurricane Laura May Bring Power Outages to Parts of Texas, Louisiana
Hurricane Ike caused widespread power outages that lasted for weeks. With Hurricane Laura and its 140-plus mile per hour winds barreling toward the Texas...
Bambi & Friends Land Texas The No. 1 Spot On Wild List Of States...
Data analysis by Outforia, a website dedicated to outdoor adventures, shows Texas recorded 520 human deaths caused by animals from 1999 to 2019. That...
GOP Stands Up To Critical Energy “Wokeness”
Republican state-level officials continue their fight against anything “woke,” their most recent target: “critical energy theory” within the financial sector.Last week, at the States...
Study: Texas "substantially weaker" than neighbors on cleanup guidelines for polluted sites
The study found Texas "may allow residential homes to be built in areas that neighboring states wouldn’t even consider safe for factories or oil refineries.”
Texas Refineries Over-Polluting with Cancer-Causing Agents
Five Texas refineries exceeded federal limits on benzene pollution, a known carcinogen, as reported by an Environmental Integrity Project in 2021, with self-reported data...
‘A Tough Pill To Swallow’: Democratic Leaders Struggle To Endorse New Climate Policy
The highlight of President Biden’s climate agenda is running into serious opposition from key moderate Democrats, putting in danger his Clean Electricity Performance Program...
Houston Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods Fight Back Against Concrete Pollution
Houston has a long and unfortunate history when it comes to companies placing polluting sites near residential areas, particularly those that are majority Black,...
Texas AG is Receiving Price Gouging Reports Linked to Hurricane Laura
Despite the fact that Hurricane Laura came ashore in Louisiana and did not do anywhere near the amount of damage it could have in...
Patrick Protects Communities From Pollution As Long As They’re Rural and White
Texans can count on Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to have their backs against factories that want to pollute their communities, provided those communities aren’t...
