AltWeeklies Wire
Fire in the Skynew
The sour side of life in the South Texas fracklands.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-29-2013 |
Environment
Tags: fracking
Environmentalists, landowners and Valero await decision on the Keystone XL pipelinenew
The town of Wells is easy to overlook, just a few blocks of homes and a school stretching along a busy state highway.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-30-2013 |
Environment
Cleaning up coal in West Texas expected to help fuel San Antonio and wring out the oil patchnew
There's a mean-sounding hiss emanating from one of a dozen pipes rising like stovepipe to feed into a desert-tan battery that intermittently flushes high volumes of fluids 4,500 feet below ground.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-26-2012 |
Environment
Newsmonger: Residents oppose Newell Recycling move, Push and pull over Bexar County Jailnew
A smelly, metal-shredding neighbor may complicate ongoing plans to revive the iconic Lone Star Brewery to its former glory.
San Antonio Current |
SA Current News Team |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Tags: green issues
Texas Republican Party The Real 'Extremist' in Climate Fightnew
Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Air Force moves to shutter community board overseeing toxic pollutionnew
Robert Alvarado is a decades-long veteran of life in the so-called Toxic Triangle, the small fence-line community that bumps up against the now-shuttered Kelly Air Force Base.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-20-2012 |
Environment
Air quality and the Eagle Fordnew
Where are we in terms of compliance with federal air quality standards?
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-02-2012 |
Environment
Fate of natural Texas rests on landowners and smart conservationnew
You don't need to ride our highways or jockey for parking at our many strip malls to know San Antonio has been growing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
03-31-2012 |
Environment
Placenta Shampoos, BPA, and Monsanto's Genetic Empirenew
We are experimental people. By that, I don't mean we like to tinker. Though tinker we certainly do.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-29-2012 |
Environment
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew
Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Valero Working Overtime to Stop Climate-Change Legislationnew
Move over Koch Brothers, San Antonio's Valero Energy wants to keep the future oily.
San Antonio Current |
Robert Crowe |
01-18-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Valero, Oil industry
The Lost Pines of Texasnew
Except where it serves as a reminder of our connection to, and dependence upon, nature, the incredible loss of trees this year was a total disaster.
San Antonio Current |
Brandon R. Reynolds |
01-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Texas trees
Punishing Drought Just Getting Started in Texasnew
Natural weather cycles delivered the worst one-year drought in the historic record to Texas in 2011. Scientists examining tree rings had to go back as far as 1789 to find a worse one.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: drought in Texas
Texas vs. EPAnew
As 2011 dawned, state leaders were openly refusing to abide by new nationwide greenhouse gas emissions standards.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-30-2011 |
Environment
Censored Scientist Wants to Restore Sound Policy-Making in Texasnew
Two months of sustained outrage from scientists, academics, and newspaper editorial boards may have changed things at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — at least when it comes to publishing hard, peer-reviewed science.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
12-23-2011 |
Environment
