Green Tip Guy: Freshen your car with an air-cleaning plant
Learn the catchy Car Plant song!
Clean Air
EPA to share environmental justice success stories at Dallas forum
The EPA Region 6 Environmental Justice Forum in Dallas will showcase successful collaborations from June 12-13. It aims to highlight results of government, industry, and community partnerships, focusing on topics like air and water quality improvements and disaster responses, and fostering inter-state engagement.
Dallas fundraiser to launch air monitoring drive in Joppa
Let Joppa Breath is a celebration of a recent environmental victory and a fundraiser for an air monitoring program in the southern Dallas community. Photo courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
May 16, 2018
More concrete plants for Joppa? Dallas City Council decides today
The Dallas City Council hears the case for more heavy industry in a historic community today.
[Update: 3:30 p.m. Dallas City Council rejected concrete batch plants 9-5.]
March 28, 2018
Dallas-Fort Worth has poor air quality that keeps more kids off the playground and sends more respiratory patients to the hospital per capita than most U.S. urban centers, as local, federal and health association studies of recent years show. But in some neighborhoods, where heavy industry is placed out of view to most, the air is much, much worse.
Green Tip Guy: Make your own air filter
Jason shows you how to make a homemade air filter to clean your home's air. Photo courtesy of Storyblock.
Feisty Arlington activist took on environmental issues big and small
Harriet Varnum Irby, a prominent Arlington activist, dedicated four decades to environmental causes and fought against gas drilling despite her failing health. A memorial will be held on March 17 at First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church. Contributions can be made to the Harriet Varnum Irby Fund in her memory.
North Texas cities combating climate change from bottom up
Dallas and Fort Worth are among 12 Texas cities that have signed the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. Above, City of Dallas Environmental Quality Department at a recent Clean Air Action Day. Courtesy of Green Dallas Facebook page.
Feb. 9, 2018
Citizen network to monitor tiny, deadly air hazard in DFW
A consortium of universities, environmental groups, civic leaders and volunteers want to draw attention to problem of particulate matter in North Texas. Courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb. 2, 2017
Dallas doctor rallied colleagues to take stand on air quality
Dr. Robert Haley, who is in the running for a Green Source DFW Sustainable Leadership award, has been a key ally in the fight for cleaner air in North Texas. Photo courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
Oct. 30, 2017
A Dallas doctor has been hailed by environmentalists as a powerful ally in the fight for clean air in North Texas.
Luminant Energy to close Big Brown and Sandow coal plants
North Texans environmentalists are cheering the news that two notorious Texas smog monsters are meeting their demise. On Friday, Luminant Energy announced closures of its two-unit Sandow Power Plant in Milam County and its two-unit Big Brown Power Plant in Freestone County.