Above, An overhead view in 2012 of Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists' low-level radioactive waste storage facilities near Andrews, Texas. Photo by David Bowser/Texas Tribune.
May 3, 2017
By Jim Malewitz and Kiah Collier
Texas Tribune
A proposal to bring the nation’s spent nuclear fuel to West Texas appears to be on the ropes.
As of May 3, there were about a dozen environmental bills still in play in the House. Courtesy of Texas Legislature.
May 3, 2017
Students test irradiance outside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Dallas. The class was participating in Good Faith Impact's solar installation training held last month. Photos courtesy of Good Faith Impact.
May 1, 2017
A vandal was stopped when neighbors noticed he was cutting up a park tree for firewood in the Dixon Branch Greenbelt last month. Photos by Amy Martin and Scooter Smith.
April 25, 2017
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way." - William Blake
The Dallas Green Alliance contributes several thousand dollars to environmentally friendly candidates via grassroots fundraising. Pictured DGAco-chair Brandon Pollard kneeling with board members Anna Albers, Vijay Barnabas, Corey Troiani, Clarice Criss, co-chair Erica Cole and Becky Rader.
April 21, 2017
This year, ocean health will be a focus of the festival with keynote speaker oceanographer and environmentalist Sylvia Earth, along with exhibits, film screenings and a dive pool from Go Dive Now.
April 19, 2017
Starting Friday, Earth Day Texas will once again descend on Dallas with a few things you'll remember from past years and a number of things new as well. Here is a snapshot: