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Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston
The category 1 storm dealt the city disastrous damage. Houston’s first direct hit from a hurricane in decades showed how vulnerable the nation’s energy capital remains.
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The category 1 storm dealt the city disastrous damage. Houston’s first direct hit from a hurricane in decades showed how vulnerable the nation’s energy capital remains.
How a Laredo activist and her scrappy environmental group have fought back against powerful interests in South Texas
An industrial buildout on the southern tip of Texas is erasing the last traces of an ancient world that still hasn’t died.
Some hunting ranches in Texas routinely offer hunts of endangered or threatened exotic species. This should not be allowed.
Does the state parks agency serve the people, or corporate interests?
PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.
A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.
Community members say the state transportation agency is violating its agreement with the feds to reduce the discriminatory impact of its plans to expand I-45.
A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project compiled data on every U.S. plastics plant built, expanded or proposed since 2012, revealing massive growth in Texas.