Texas
Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote
Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend […]
Read MoreTexas Quietly Moves to Formalize Acceptable Cancer Risk From Industrial Air Pollution. Public Health Officials Say it’s not Strict Enough.
State of Denial: Third in a series about Texas’ environmental regulators. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to […]
Read MoreTensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.
This story, reported with a grant from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder, is published in partnership with the El Paso Times. DELICIAS, Mexico—By late August, the usual monsoon rains had scarcely materialized in this region of Chihuahua, one of the driest states in Mexico. The reservoir at La Boquilla dam was […]
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