Environment

Texas’ pro-fossil fuel law has spread, with the help of ALEC, to other states including Oklahoma.

Early risers can catch Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the predawn sky.

A pipeline owned by Dallas oil tycoon Kelcy Warren reportedly leaked a lot of methane in a short timespan.

In March, Texas wildfires consumed over 160,000 acres of Lone Star land and things are just starting to heat up.

Most people in Texas can expect to see rate increases on their flood insurance policies.

Texas-based petroleum and gas company Chevron Phillips Chemical agreed in a federal court Wednesday to pay $121 million to settle alleged violations of federal air pollution limits at three manufacturing facilities in Texas. The company violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws at plants in Port…

A new study from the University of North Texas has found that extreme heat alters Texans’ behavior.

A Texas concrete company wants to open a plant in McKinney near a soccer park, a nature sanctuary, and a facility that houses adults with special needs. The Dallas Sierra Club and residents in the area plan to oppose the plant at a public hearing Monday night in front of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Since 2020, Arlington residents have been fighting against a French energy conglomerate that wants to install three additional gas wells near a daycare center. That fight will come to a head at a special-called meeting tonight.

Three new gas wells near an Arlington daycare center are expected to be operational early next year.

Parents in Arlington are up against a French energy company that wants to frack near their children’s school. Tonight, the fight goes to City Council.

Early Friday morning, North Texans can catch a glimpse of the Beaver Moon, the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly six centuries.

A small, impoverished community in southeastern Dallas County has fought for years to get clean water.

In an anonymously filed ethics complaint, Council member Tennell Atkins, a project manager and a program manager are accused of wasting $20,000 of city property and resources on the Singing Hills Recreation Center.

These fish are massive. Silver carp can reach approximately 3 feet in length and can weigh nearly 60 pounds. Bighead carp can be up to 4 and a half feet long and weigh nearly 90 pounds. Now, they’re in Texas waters.

The project is planned for the main stem of the Sulphur River in Red River and Titus counties and would have significant negative effects on the local economy. On the flip side, DFW would have another water source to prevent its potentially dry future.

This week, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert asked whether land agencies can change the orbit of the Earth or moon to fix climate change.

At the time it was announced, Adam Bazaldua, Joppa’s city council member, applauded Downwinders and Joppa resident Temeckia Durrough for helping make the project happen. Now, Durrough said she feels she and another community member are being excluded from the project.

Paul Quinn College’s Urban Research Initiative made that data a lot easier to read and a lot more accessible with a tool mapping out polluters in North Texas counties.

West Dallasites are taking the opportunity to finally share their concerns about one plant’s pollution.