The resignation of Al Armendariz, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Southwest region, was met with regret by environmental groups and relief in the oil and gas industry.
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Energy
Solar Panels for Fort Bliss, Fort Hood? Why Not, Bases Say of Green Efforts
Fort Bliss has launched a massive effort to cut its net energy and water usage and reduce waste as part of a focus on self-sufficiency. Fort Hood is also working to go greener, but high upfront costs pose challenges.
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Energy
Texas Sees Renewed Push for Uranium Mining
Texas is one of the nation’s only producers of uranium, and mining companies are gearing up for expansion. That’s causing concern among environmental groups, some of which have been battling uranium mining for decades.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson maps Medicaid patients’ access to pharmacies, Aguilar on Mexicans in exile, Batheja on an unlikely threat to a veteran lawmaker’s re-election, Galbraith and Murphy interactively track reservoir levels around the state, Grissom on the ringleaders who rule the state’s largest youth lockup, Hamilton on how much Texas professors are paid, Ramsey on who’s conservative, Ramshaw and Tan on the latest Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, Root on what Santorum’s exit means for the Texas primary, and parts 4 (by M. Smith) and 5 (by Tan and Dehn) of our series on school district closures: The best of our best content from April 9-13, 2012.
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Data App: Texas Reservoir Daily Water Level Tracker
The historic Texas drought caused statewide worries over potential water shortages when reservoir levels fell dramatically. Our interactive data app allows you to check the current status of the state’s reservoirs.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The first two parts of M. Smith’s series on failing school districts (plus Murphy and Seger’s interactive on how districts’ characteristics relate to ratings), Root on lagging GOP candidates for president trying to shore things up in Texas, Ramshaw on a “fiscal switcheroo” to get federal money for women’s health programs, Galbraith talks to a West Texas farmer about crop insurance and climate change and Aguilar on the money behind a lawsuit on long rifle sales: The best of our best content from April 2 to 6, 2012.
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Energy
The Hot Seat: A Conversation with West Texas Lawmakers
At our Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, state Reps. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Tryon Lewis, R-Odessa, and state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, discussed cuts to public and higher education and other by-products of the 82nd Session.
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Energy
Stewart Rogers: The TT Interview
The manager of a West Texas farm on the oddities of crop insurance, why all the farmers near Lubbock want to grow cotton and why West Texans don’t believe in climate change despite the drought and weird weather.
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Energy
Ken Kramer: The TT Interview
The outgoing director of the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club on the importance of water, the growth of the Club, and how he stumbled on his future career path while hiking near Fort Bliss.
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Economy
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson interactively maps Texas Medicaid providers, Aguilar talks legalization with the head of the Drug Policy Alliance, Galbraith on farmers watering what they know won’t grow, Grisson sits down with exoneree Michael Morton, Hamilton on the elusive $10,000 college degree, Murphy et al. update the 2012 election brackets, Ramsey on Bill Ratliff’s frank budget analysis, Ramshaw on a hospital where the overweight need not apply, Root on Joe Straus’ primary opponent and Tan rounds up reactions to the Supreme Court’s health care hearings: The best of our best content from March 26-30, 2012.
