Downwinders at Risk is working with a researcher from the University of Texas - Dallas and others to monitor air quality in North Texas hot spots using drones as well as stationary monitors. Photo courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
Dec. 14, 2016
Members of the Bois D'Arc Patriots, a group of activists, and the East Dallas Tenants and Small Homeowners' Alliance, circa 1970s. Dallas native John Fullinwider, an original member of the Patriots, is one of nine guest lecturers participating in Downwinders at Risk's College of Constructive Hell-Raising, a continuing ed course on community organizing beginning in January. Courtesy of Downwinders at Risk.
Nov. 8, 2016
Big Brown in Freestone County is one of the coal-burning power plants that DFW CAN says needs to be regulated. Photo courtesy of Texas Tribune.
May 9, 2016
On Tuesday, Dallas County became the first government entity in North Texas to reject the state’s clean air plan and request the Environmental Protection Agency to follow suit. Their resolution asks EPA to develop a federal plan to reduce smog that’s worse here than anywhere else in Texas. The County’s resolution calls on EPA for two actions.
April 18, 2016
Frack drilling is an ever more contentious issue in North Texas, and this week a documentary film of local people living on its frontlines, including the Barnett Shale, arrives here. Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now screens Wednesday, April 20, in Denton at University of North Texas and Thursday, April 21, in Fort Worth at The Museum of Modern Art, two stops on its cross-country tour.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the agency that handles drilling rights on public lands, was considering allowing fracking on the northwest side of Lake Lewisville. Photo courtesy of DFW NBC5.
March 11, 2016
Those who feared that Lake Lewisville would be fracked have reason to celebrate.
A sign opposing the Trans-Pecos pipeline hangs in a neighborhood near where the pipeline could run near Alpine. Photo by Cooper Neill/Texas Tribune.
Jan. 6, 2016
A coalition of ranchers, environmentalists and disgruntled landowners has suffered a major setback in its battle to block a proposed pipeline that would carry natural gas beneath 143 miles of largely untouched Big Bend-area land.
Aug. 12, 2015
In the wake of State House Bill 40, Texas cities in the Barnett Shale region, including Denton and Fort Worth, find themselves stripped of rights to develop health and safety ordinances for subsurface oil and gas operations and subjected to a vague standard for regulations governing surface operations.
The bill was enacted in reaction to Denton’s fracking ban and other cities’ strict drilling ordinances.