July 5, 2012
As Dallas-Fort Worth braces for the long hot summer, ozone alert days are also popping into the forecast. Those are days when ozone levels are expected to rise to unhealthy levels as designated by Environmental Protection Agency standards.
Helen Bush, Rita Beving, and Dick Guldi listen to Michelle Barlond-Smith (second from the right) at lunch in Dallas after her testimony in Austin.
June 28, 2012
By Joe Gaines
The City of Dallas doesn't appear to be giving up on an ordinance that would funnel all solid waste collected in the city to its landfill on its southern end.
(Photo: The Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm near Fluvanna, Texas)
By Teresa McUsic
June 19, 2012
They’re women who specialize in sustainable businesses -- everything from recycling to environmental science to green marketing. They’re entrepreneurs, city employees and job seekers. Together they make up the Dallas-Fort Worth group known as Women in the Environment.
By Julie Thibodeaux
The sign of a member of Frisco Unleaded, a community group formed in Frisco to combat the Exide lead smelter in that city)
June 6, 2012
When Shiby Mathew and her family moved to Frisco in 2008, they didn’t know that one of their neighbors would be a lead smelter.
(Photo: A Woodhouse Toad, once abundant in Dallas County, now the subject of envrionmental conservation efforts. Courtesy of Carl Franklin.)
May 30, 2012
May 29, 2012
For over 30 years, Elizabeth Dry has been an educator. She has worked in the public and private sectors at the campus, district and state levels and during this time says she has continually observed the natural engagement of all children to the environment. Through this observation, and keeping in mind the undeniable dropout rate of high school students, Dry says she decided to do something about it.
By Teresa McUsic
It’s time to kick that old, energy-guzzling refrigerator out of your kitchen—and the State of Texas will give you a little incentive to help.
Memorial Weekend is the fifth annual Energy Star appliances sales tax holiday in Texas.