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Environment

Dallas breaks ground on a new pump station to prevent flooding

Local News

Extremely low Mississippi River levels just reemerged a 'once in a lifetime' tourist destination in Missouri for the third year in a row

Human-driven climate change, through the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas, has made the once-rare event all too common.
Texas News

Texas’ battle against deer disease threatens breeding industry

Texas has seen a record number of chronic wasting disease cases in 2024. It's looking for new ways to contain the spread without driving breeders out of business.
Environment

Joppa community wants tougher penalties on TSRM concrete batch plant that operated more than a year without permit

Texas Star Ready Mix says the plant's permit was voided before they purchased the building and argues they are not culpable.
Local News

Annual Solar Car Challenge takes off as highschoolers race solar-powered cars at Texas Motor Speedway July 14

Teams of highschoolers across the nation, including 16 from Texas, race the solar-powered cars they build themselves over four straight days.
Nation World

Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants

The regulation will remain on hold while the federal appeals court in Washington considers a challenge to the plan from industry and Republican-led states.
Local News

EPA grants $6.1 million to Fort Worth ISD for electric buses

Fort Worth ISD is receiving $6,167,108 through EPA’s first Clean School Bus Grant Competition.
Environment

Fort Worth ISD given $16 million for new electric buses

The 15 new buses will be funded by an EPA grant as a part of the Clean Bus Program.
Nation World

Climate activists arrested for spray-painting private jets orange at London airport

Environmental group Just Stop Oil posted video of someone cutting through a security fence and a clip of the women using a fire extinguisher to spray orange paint.
Nation World

Joro spiders are back in the news. Here's what the experts really think about them

Many researchers think it's only a matter of time before the large, brightly colored spiders spread to much of the continental U.S.
Health

Dallas County Health Department said mosquito activity will likely get worse

ZIP codes in DeSoto, Mesquite and Irving have recently tested positive for West Nile Virus.
Crime

Company that bred beagles for research pleads guilty to neglect, ordered to pay record $35M fine

Envigo violated federal law by subjecting thousands of beagles to inhumane conditions at a facility in Cumberland.