Texas’ Failure to Ban Plastic Bags is Stressing the Environment
It doesn’t take 20/20 “environmental” vision to see that the Texas landscape is choking on plastic. Just look left-to-right while driving, and you’re bound...
Abbott’s Top Donor Pipeline Company Had A Colossal Methane Leak, Will He Face Consequences?
On March 17, a natural gas pipeline run by one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s top donors, Kelcy Warren, leaked a ton of greenhouse gas...
2024 Presidential Election Impact on Texas: Disaster Relief
This is a multipart series on the different ways the 2024 Presidential Election is likely to affect Texas.
In recent history, Texas has been ground...
Abbott Compares Deadly Flood Response to Football, Critics Call It Insensitive
As Texas continues to grapple with the aftermath of devastating Hill Country floods, Governor Greg Abbott made...
Pre-Hurricane Chemical Plant Releases a Wake-Up Call for Reforms
With Hurricane Laura threatening the Gulf Coast region, the oil refineries and petrochemical plants that stretch across the Houston area and Southeast Texas took...
TCEQ Downplaying Dangers of Cancer-Causing Gas
Ethylene oxide is a flammable, colorless gas used in a variety of industrial applications and sterilizing certain medical equipment. It is also a known...
Anger Runs Through Hill Country As Kinder Morgan Pipeline Nears Completion
As the completion of a pipeline project nears, setting up Texas natural gas on a 430-mile southeast trajectory, the anger of landowners along the...
Willie Nelson, Paul Simon Not Enough to Stop Kinder Morgan Hill Country Pipeline
Kinder Morgan is moving toward completion of a pipeline through the heart of the Texas Hill Country, despite multiple legal challenges, opposition from landowners...
Texas A&M Forest Services on the Hunt for Tree-Killing Beetle
The evasive Emerald Ash Borer destroys ash trees. This tiny insect is a fascinating green color, eye-catching and shimmery. You wouldn’t imagine that this...
U.S.-Mexico Water Wars: Treaty Tensions Escalate Amid Historic Droughts
Tensions are escalating between the United States and Mexico over a water treaty as both countries experience severe droughts and rising temperatures.
The conflict, rooted...
