Featured What Dallas can learn from Houston’s Buffalo Bayou for the Trinity River project (Mark Lamster – Dallas Morning News, 2/26/2015) “How do you transform the flood plain of a neglected urban waterway into a grand public park and metropolitan gateway? Dallas has been struggling with this challenge for more than 20 years, making incremental progress on the Trinity River…
Featured New website evaluates environmental impact of projects in State Water Plan; Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down Ratings Given to Highlighted Projects (Environment Texas, 2/26/2015) “Environment Texas Research and Policy Center launched a new website today designed to help educate Texans about the environmental impacts of projects in the State Water Plan. The interactive website – www.OurTexasWater.org – allows Texans…
Featured The Holdouts (Priscilla Mosqueda – Texas Observer, 2/16/2015) “When the landman comes knocking, most people living in the Texas oil patch experience something like joy, or at least sweet relief. Here’s someone offering you money up front and the promise of hefty royalty checks in exchange for producing oil and 
gas from the ground… Landmen are agents of oil…