Environment

The proposal comes after the state’s oil and gas regulatory agency said it needs more money to plug wells that are in some instances erupting.

KERA's Katherine Hobbs reports that conservationists at the Fort Worth Zoo released a record-breaking number of Texas horned lizards in the month of October. Texas Parks and Wildlife says now is the time to plant wildflowers to help our pollinators. You can find more information on what to plant in your region from the Native Plant Society of Texas at npsot.org.

The dust and wind in West Texas conspire to keep front steps and porches coated in a layer of grit. But in Socorro and other rural communities near El Paso, another nuisance has plagued residents for months: red flour beetles.

Texas lawmakers are weighing whether the law was properly applied in convicting death row inmate Robert Roberson, whose execution was blocked last week. Texas Parks and Wildlife’s annual Pollinator BioBlitz continues through October 27, celebrating the fall migration of monarch butterflies and bringing awareness to all that pollinators do for Texas.

While residents smelled rotten eggs, the state’s environmental agency said it has not detected any air pollution.

A recent report from Inside Climate News found that the state's environmental regulators are not holding polluters as accountable as they once did. The Texas Department of Transportation will receive more than $5.5 billion from the federal government for infrastructure improvements. And the U.S. Supreme Court is revisiting a dispute over shipping nuclear waste from across the country to a site in far West Texas.

A controversial plan to ship nuclear waste from across the country to a site in rural West Texas has been blocked since last year after Texas prevailed in a federal lawsuit. The high court has now agreed to take up the case.

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.

The EPA is currently facing a lawsuit on behalf of farmers from Johnson County, Texas, after the presence of PFAS in fertilizers allegedly infected crops and resulted in the death of livestock.

Permian Basin Containers burst into flames on July 23. Now, local officials have issued a disaster declaration in response and nearby residents worry chemicals released in the blaze have contaminated local groundwater.