Environment Texas

Dallas is putting more restrictions on environmentally hazardous concrete batch plants, which have operated near Black and Latino neighborhoods for years.

Southeast Dallas residents who live near the former Shingle Mountain site want the city council to approve a $2 million cleanup of toxic lead and arsenic contamination.

Debbie Orozco Solis says folks in her West Dallas neighborhood have to live with a fine dust that sometimes makes it hard to breathe. They share the neighborhood with a “concrete batch plant” that makes cement for construction projects.

Wilderness areas are the most stringently protected types of public lands in the U.S. A coalition of Big Bend boosters is pushing for Congress to protect most of the park’s natural areas through a formal wilderness designation.

Dallas is struggling to get old tires dumped in empty lots and on residential streets to a recycling facility.

America is growing more geographically polarized — red ZIP codes are getting redder and blue ZIP codes are becoming bluer. People appear to be sorting.

A year ago next week, a winter storm devastated Texas. The family members of one storm victim say her adventurous life shouldn’t have ended by freezing to death in an assisted living facility.

Between Port Isabel and Brownsville, one state highway is infamous for its danger to coastal birds.

Every 12 years, state agencies undergo a performance evaluation to make them more efficient.

The new park would replace the vacant lot of about 4 acres, where the notorious Shingle Mountain once stood. Shingle Mountain was the 100,000-ton pile of hazardous waste that loomed over the community for three years. Residents said it “stood as a vivid reminder of their worth to the city.”

The budget is one of the most important documents prepared by the city because it identifies where citizen tax dollars and other revenues are being spent.

The Dallas City Council voted on Wednesday to acquire 4.3 acres of land located near the intersection of South Central Expressway and Choate Road. The area is the former site of Shingle Mountain.