news & announcements
Environmentalists Protest Dollar Stores Toxic Inventory
KLBJ News: Environmentalists say low-income families and communities of color could be getting sick from toxic products bought at Family Dollar.
Protesters urge dollar stores to stop selling items with cancer-causing chemicals
Click2Houston: Concerned consumers held signs and chanted outside a Family Dollar on Lawndale Street Wednesday urging the store and others like it to stop selling products, they say are riddled with toxic chemicals.
Scruggs: We should heed pope’s climate change stance
Houston Chronicle op-ed: There is an old joke about the man in a flooding house who prays for rescue. As the water rises, firefighters come by in a rowboat and offer to help him out. He says, “No, no, I’m waiting for God to rescue me.”
What’s the Damage? Fallout from the 84th Texas legislative session
Austin Chronicle: As in many years, the environmental fights at the 84th Legislature were mostly not to do good things, but to prevent bad things from happening – and at best, it was a split decision.
Single-use Plastic Bags will be Free Again Monday
Dallas Observer: At what Dwaine Caraway said would be his last City Council meeting, the term-limited council member put on a vintage performance, fighting against what’s become the bane of his existence: single-use plastic bags.
Texas environmentalists call for change in Walgreen’s products
CW 39 News Houston: Folks upset with Walgreen’s about chemicals in its products are protesting at the corner of sad and toxic.
Abbott Signs Bill to Speed Permits, Limit Protests
Texas Tribune: Critics are worried that limiting the process would stifle what little voice everyday Texans have when manufacturers, chemical plants, landfills and other high-polluting businesses set up shop in their communities.
New requirements for ingredient that triggered West explosion headed to Gov. Abbott
Dallas Morning News: The Senate gave final approval Thursday to new regulations for ammonium nitrate. The changes are in response to a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in West that killed 15 people.
Dallas’ bag fee is working — let it continue
Dallas Morning News Op-Ed: The 5-cent fee on disposable shopping bags has vastly reduced the sheer number of bags Dallas retailers and consumers are churning through.
English
English
Spanish