Haley Samsel | Fort Worth Report
Environmental reporter-
As the Fort Worth City Council listened to a presentation on the city’s proposed urban forestry master plan, council member Gyna Bivens wanted everyone to understand why it existed in the first place.
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Before the Panther Island project is considered complete, a segment of University Drive must be raised 10 to 15 feet, or about the height of a full-grown giraffe.
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When Meghna Tare became the University of Texas at Arlington’s first sustainability director in 2010, the sustainability office was in its infancy. She started from scratch, building the university’s reputation as a hub for recycling, food waste reduction and student education initiatives.
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With just weeks to finalize Dallas-Fort Worth’s air quality improvement plan, North Central Texas Council of Governments staff have revealed its initial ideas for reducing pollution across the region.
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Ten Texas counties, including Tarrant, Dallas and Harris, report higher levels of soot pollution than allowed under the EPA’s new rules.
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Right before Thanksgiving, Kathy Farmer Robertson had a surprise visitor at her office on Camp Bowie Boulevard. Her childhood friend Laura Lynch stopped by with a gift: a small stuffed owl.
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To Ranjana Bhandari, executive director of environmental advocacy group Liveable Arlington, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to reduce oil and gas pollution are more than policy changes. The regulations, and what they represent, feel personal to her.
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More than four years after golfers played their last round at Sycamore Creek’s nine-hole course, Fort Worth officials will use a $1.5 million grant to turn the 92-acre site into a community park.
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Flames engulfed patches of prairie at southwest Fort Worth’s Chisholm Trail Park, surrounded by apartments, homes, a skate park and a nearby high school. Drivers slowed to watch what appeared to be a massive response by firefighters and city staff.
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Fort Worth ISD’s school buses are going green — though the familiar yellow paint color will remain the same.
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From the moment Erin Schallhorn heard about the city of Fort Worth’s plans to build a stormwater detention pond near her Arlington Heights home, she could see her neighborhood’s future washing away.
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Fire and police are working with Atmos Energy, the hotel’s natural gas provider, to determine whether a gas leak caused the explosion or an explosion caused the gas leak, Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis said.