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A federal judge approved a historic $50 million settlement agreement Tuesday between Taiwan-based plastics manufacturer Formosa and a scrappy environmental activist represented by indigent legal services nonprofit Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.
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It’s MLB playoff season (go Nats!) but increasingly hot weather is making outdoor baseball nearly impossible in parts of Texas. That was the case at the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Park that saw its last game last week after owners noticed that high temps were depressing attendance.
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Although the hottest story in the media right now is impeachment it’s important not to forget that a worsening drought is affecting Southern states from Texas to Georgia. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has extended a drought disaster declaration to numerous counties in the state due to significantly low rainfall and prolonged dry conditions that continue […]
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Even while the world is trying to wean itself off fossil fuels and the major Democratic candidates promised to end fracking on federal land and to put a price on carbon, the Houston Business Journal reported that Houston-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Tellurian Inc. is entering into a multibillion-dollar deal to with an Indian […]
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In recent years the Fort Worth Basin located in North Central Texas has become a major shale gas production region. In order to extract oil and gas trapped in the rock, wastewater is injected deep into the ground and works its way into dormant faults and eventually forces the rock to crack and allow fossil […]
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A new documentary that premiered last week doubles as both a gorgeous nature film giving the public a rare, up-close view of the rugged landscape along the 1200-mile US-Mexico border spanning the state of Texas, as well as a political film about the tragic harms to humans and wildlife caused by building “that wall.” The […]
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