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Climate Change: Still Not a Hoax
Reducing carbon emissions with Austin Energy, without the Fayette Power Project
"...a budget that would cut roughly one-third of the Environmental Protection Agency's funding and lay off 3,750 employees. Trump..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Council: What’ll We Do Without Zim?
First 2017 meeting hints new alignments
"...Flannigan’s nomination of Lawrence R. “Rick” Jacobi to the Environmental Commission. Jacobi is a prominent consultant on nuclear energy..."

Jan. 31, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Environment: Hydrocarbon Rules
Fallout from the 84th Texas legislative session
"...As in many years, the environmental fights at the 84th Legislature were mostly not to..."

June 5, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Developing Stories: East Riverside: The Road Ahead
Let's capture the value – and federal funds
"...Improving this corridor can advance many community goals, including environmental and fiscal sustainability, as well as comprehensive planning for..."

March 5, 2010 News Column by Katherine Gregor

When Does Toxic Become Too Toxic?
"...It might take a degree in environmental chemistry to understand the pollution readings from Pure Castings..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Happy Earth Day!
A field trip to Hornsby Bend
"...Bend for some inspiring Earth Day field work. The environmental science students learned about the Colorado River and riparian..."

April 22, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...is motivated wholly by financial considerations; it has real environmental and health consequences," wrote local attorney David Frederick. The..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature

Beyond City Limits
"...obtained showing that as early as December 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency had blasted the Department of Home­land Security's..."

July 4, 2008 News Feature

City Still Cleaning Up Waller
Two weeks after fuel-oil leak, city still cleaning up and checking creek for injured or poisoned wildlife
"...The city immediately called San Antonio-based Eagle Construction and Environmental Services LP, Austin's rapid remediation contractors. Municipal workers deployed..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City
"...the Montopolis neighborhood, with the help of a $200,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant. The 9.8-acre site, bordered on three..."

April 27, 2007 News Feature

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...ordinance or to ask questions about it, contact HHS' Environmental and Consumer Health Unit at 972-5600 or [email protected]. –..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

Freeport & Grasberg: A Chronology
"...named the top water polluter in America by the Environmental Protection Agency...."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City
Enviro Heaven, Enviro Hell
"...It was good news/bad news on environmental bills this week: The Senate passed HB 1365, to..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Smell of Victory Eludes Northeast Landfill Neighbors
Northeast Travis County residents decry slow pace of enforcement, regulation of their neighbor landfills
"...relations between the neighbors and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state regulatory agency that oversees the landfills,..."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City
FWS's Frederick Moves On
"...Word of the maneuvers spread quickly through Austin's environmental and development communities, fueling speculation that Frederick's transfer was..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks
Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.
"...might not actually be a fictitious creation of the anti-environmentalists; she plays the role of the constantly complaining liberal..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column

Postmarks
Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.
"...The preservation of our community's cultural resources, like environmental protection, should be a key element of successful Smart..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Column

Bush vs. Bush
Clean Air: Optional or Mandatory?
"...the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, an Austin-based environmental group, show that the grandfathered air program's parameters were..."

May 28, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...by floods that could easily undo many of the protections that are being proposed. "It's outrageous," St. Louis said...."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Four environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to..."

May 29, 1998 News Feature

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...Slusher said he'd like to see more progress on environmental protection and 911 response time, and better performance from..."

Jan. 23, 1998 News Feature

A Golden Opportunity
SB1704's Repeal Gives Austin a Turn at the Helm
"...Creek, and a few glanced at the display of pro-environmental cartoons that never made it to the newspapers. But..."

Aug. 29, 1997 News Feature by John Spong

The Last Don
Bob Bullock: The Crusty Boss of Texas Politics
"...domestic use of DBCP had been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, but the companies continued to sell it..."

Jan. 31, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Solution to Pollution
On the Lege
"...is seen by many as one of the worst environmental bills of the 74th Legislature. Authored by super conservative..."

June 9, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Calling All Citizens
The Comprehensive Plan and the waterfront need engaged Austinites
"...should be "drawn from the fields of urban design, environmental protection, architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, shoreline ecology, neighborhood..."

July 31, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Protecting the Waterfront (Part 2)
Council vote to determine future of waterfront
"...ordinance with "promoting excellence in the design, development, and protection of the City's waterfront." The same night, the Parks..."

May 1, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Acting on Directors
The spring retirement announced by City Manager Toby Futrell raises the question of how the city will fill key openings
"...the next decade on urban planning and land use, environmental protection and climate protection -- among other initiatives...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Headlines / Quote of the Week
"...Petition Over Troubled Water: Environmental organizations filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency..."

Oct. 1, 2021 News Feature

Origins of a Green Identity Dives into the Growth of a Community
KLRU and Living Springs celebrate Austin's eco-pioneers
"...to work hard to keep it this way," explains environmental campaigner Mary Arnold in Origins of a Green Identity:..."

Jan. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

As Wastewater Plants Fail, TCEQ Fails to Regulate
Local conservationists seek to boost "beneficial reuse"
"...of formal enforcement action from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the agency that's supposed to regulate these transgressions...."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

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