Environment

Even a brief bit of darkness will effect solar and wind power. ERCOT says it’s ready.

As the Panhandle tackles vicious wildfires, DFW-area fire departments lend reinforcements to help.

A local group says an asphalt shingle factory has been operating in Joppa for decades without the proper permit. Now, they want the factory shut down.

Only after a TikTok video appeared was a massive, destructive treated water leak repaired. Local environmental activists say it took too long.

A group of Dallas neighborhood activists and members of the city’s Environmental Commission haven’t been getting along lately, and things have gotten ugly.

A six-story pile of shingles rose in Southern Dallas. Now that it’s gone, Floral Farms hopes a park will take its place, but the city isn’t committing yet.

This Halloween, arborists are warning that trees resembling the “living dead” are haunting North Texas lawns.

Eugene Gates Jr. died while working in the extreme heat. His Democratic representative in the U.S. Congress is pushing for postal service reforms.

Additional foliage helps to beautify neighborhoods and provide shade. It also reduces energy bills and stormwater runoff. And you can make it happen.

Triple-digit temperatures have ushered in a spike in heat-related illnesses this summer, but North Texans are feeling the heat in other ways, too.

A shingle manufacturing plant has been in talks with West Dallas community members to negotiate an exit strategy. Those talks are at a standstill.

U.S. Reps. Colin Allred and Jasmine Crockett, both local Democrats, are urging Congress to act.

Alexander Neal, a water resources professional, filmed himself kayaking on the city’s “crystal-clear swamp” on Sunday.

A potential water supply meant to serve D/FW’s growing needs will get another look at the possible damage it could cause.

Farmers and longtime residents of a small Texas community fear their land could be washed away by the government.

Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini has filed a bill aimed at saving the state’s bees.

Proposed legislation looks to offer the cryptocurrency industry a warm Texas welcome.

If you file too many complaints with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, you could get slapped with a fine under Senate Bill 471.

A new long-range electric bus for DART should soon provide answers for what the future of mass transit in Dallas will look like.

A lot of attention at the beginning of the new year is directed toward the bills that the Texas Legislature will consider in the upcoming legislative session. But what about the bills from past sessions that have finally become law? Jan. 1 welcomed several new laws in Texas, the bills…

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is taking another look at how it regulates concrete batch plants across the state.

In late May, people roaming around Goat Island Preserve may have smelled raw sewage. It wasn’t their imagination.