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Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

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    June 30, 2009

    Just Why Is the EPA Considering Waste Management's Lobbyist For Dallas Director?

    Alexa SchirtzingerThis morning, in the reflection of Dallas's Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Enviro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2006

    D/FW Whistleblower to (Finally) Get Day in Court

    Alexa SchirtzingerThis morning, in the reflection of Dallas's Fountain Place building, a small group of environmental activists gathered as previously announced to oppose the nomination of former Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission head John Hall as the new regional director of the Enviro ... More >>

  • News

    June 13, 2002

    Clash of Symbols

    Six Flags is teaching Texology, and we've got a few suggestions

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Down by the Old Mill

    A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Road Rage

    Homeowners in a Denton County neighborhood wage battle against "taxation without representation"

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Sour Town

    Resident dreamer Robert Bledsoe has a plan to keep his hometown of Ladonia from disappearing off the map. His neighbors want him to wake up—and shut up.

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Dumped on

    Mistrust fuels McKinney's fight against plans for a landfill

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Letters

    Cultural ignoramuses; Steppin' out with Mr. F; Hail to the chief; Take a trolley Uptown; Muddy waters

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Smoke-free environment

    After a year in operation, Denton's controversial United Copper plant remains a sleepy giant

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Belly up

    Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Clearing the air

    The motive behind a series of Bush attack ads may have been business, not politics

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    Bay botch

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

  • News

    September 16, 1999

    Troubled waters

    DFW Airport officials were warned years ago that they had a problem with water pollution. So why are fish still dying?

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    Blowing smoke

    Denton residents like Parks and Delores Olmon want to know how a posse of city slickers managed to railroad plans for a lead-belching copper factory in their town

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    The biggest pump wins

    Bart Sipriano's well dried up four days after Ozarka started pumping water nearby. Under the state's "rule of capture," he has no right to complain.

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    Chemical Warrior

    When Phyllis Glazer learned a chemical plant was making her East Texas neighbors sick, the wealthy Dallas homemaker could have cut and run. Instead, she chose to stay, fight, and win.

  • News

    February 12, 1998

    Bottom of the ninth

    Permit hearings begin in TXI's quest to become the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator

  • News

    October 23, 1997

    In the dumps

    A Pleasant Grove landowner tries to convince angry neighbors that the land he wants to fill won't turn into a trash heap

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    Dumped On

    How greedy property owners and careless bureaucrats let a massive illegal landfill grow in the back yard of a black Dallas neighborhood

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Letters

    How greedy property owners and careless bureaucrats let a massive illegal landfill grow in the back yard of a black Dallas neighborhood

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Something In The Air

    Downwind of TXI's Midlothian cement plant, people and animals keep getting sick. Instead of investigating whether the plant is to blame, state regulators appear ready to let TXI burn even more hazardous waste. Part two of A Dallas Observer Special Report

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Ill Wind Blowing

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    Letters

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    Talking trash

    Ferris' landfill stays in limbo--while state regulators fight among themselves

  • News

    November 10, 1994

    The Trashing of Ferris, Texas

    When a giant came to a tiny town, it soon became clear that almost everyone has a price.

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