Residents near a derelict Corpus Christi waste recycling plant are demanding a stop to plans to demolish the plant for fear the demolition would spread contamination to their neighborhood… READ MORE.

In a four-story test plant just behind a warehouse-like research building in North Austin, University of Texas researchers are hoping for a revolutionary breakthrough to the question of how to continue to burn coal without contributing to global warming. The mini power plant, only big enough to… READ MORE.

Christine Banks, Goodwill’s vice president of environmental business, says Dell partners with them for computer recycling, and she hopes the State Legislature will put teeth into the take-back law so more companies will step up. She wants to… READ MORE.

The city of Brownsville is one of twelve cities across the U.S. to ban plastic bags and the very first in Texas. City commissioners gave the boot to the bags in 2009, but it wasn’t until Wednesday that the ban officially went into effect. The city worked throughout 2010 to… READ MORE.

Before the combustion engine pooted its way into the hearts and lungs of civilization, our nation was on the road to electric cars. Anyone who saw the 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? knows what happened next… READ MORE.

Austin-based Cielo Wind Power LP signed a 15-year agreement to sell energy from a planned 161-megawatt wind farm in West Texas. Under terms of the deal, Xcel Energy will… READ MORE.

HOUSTON – Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed a lawsuit today in federal district court against ExxonMobil Corporation and two subsidiaries to enforce thousands of violations of the Clean Air Act at the nation’s largest oil refinery and chemical plant complex, located in Baytown, Texas… READ MORE.

Radioactive waste from more than 30 states could be destined for West Texas if a rule change by the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission is approved in January… READ MORE.

The City Council today is expected to approve an ordinance requiring all apartment complexes to begin recycling programs by April 1, 2012. The ordinance would require that recycling collection be… READ MORE

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality today announced that results from a new state-of-the-art air monitor, installed in the Flower Mound area, are now available online. The auto-GC (gas chromatograph) monitor, installed by the TCEQ, will… READ MORE.