The latest environment news from The Texas Tribune.
Energy Future Holdings, mired in bankruptcy, has agreed to pay up to $2 million to help clean up long-abandoned uranium mines in New Mexico — a sum far lower than the federal government originally sought. Full Story
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In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A celebration of Texas rivers in song, eager beavers might help control algae growth and an interview with Meredith Miller of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. Full Story
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The Texas land commissioner on Tuesday asked to joined seven North Texas families in a federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of perpetuating an “arbitrary seizure” of land along the Red River. Full Story
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Oil rustlers of Texas beware: State lawmakers want to crack down on the those who swipe hundreds of barrels of black gold to sell on the black market. But first, they need the governor’s blessing. Full Story
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The financially troubled Spanish company whose subsidiary is supposed to build a massive water pipeline to serve San Antonio entered into the initial phases of bankruptcy proceedings Wednesday. Full Story
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On your Turkey Day, take a gander at Texas' biggest game bird — from population trends to record-setting hunts. Full Story
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A coalition of environmental groups sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Tuesday, claiming the state is dragging its feet in approving operating permits for several major industrial plants. Full Story
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In her disease ecology lab in College Station, Sarah Hamer is studying how an exotic tick from Central and South America made its way to Texas and whether it has the potential to transport tick-borne diseases. Full Story
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A group of minority investors is threatening to derail a plan to lift Texas’ biggest power conglomerate from one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history. Full Story
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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller will wait to hike fees on many licenses, registrations and services that his agency provides — a response to widespread concerns from state lawmakers and the agriculture community. Full Story
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The San Antonio City Council on Wednesday unanimously — albeit cautiously — approved plans for a sizable water rate increase that will pay, in part, for a controversial, $3.4 billion water pipeline. Full Story
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In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A San Antonio pipeline project and a proposed reservoir in Fannin County kick up controversy, wild weather in Texas is on the rise and an interview with Kevin M. Befus of the U.S. Geological Survey. Full Story
Tired of waiting on lawmakers and bureaucrats to clear up their limbo, a group of North Texans has turned to the courts in an effort to reclaim thousands of acres of ranch and farmland along the Texas side of the Red River. Full Story
Add Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to the growing list of those concerned about Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s effort to hike fees for a wide range of licenses, registrations and services the Texas Department of Agriculture provides. Full Story
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Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says he's prepared to "put on my rawhide underwear and take all the chewings" as the agriculture community protests a wide range of rate hikes at his agency. Full Story
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Denton’s City Council Tuesday will take up a plan to boost the amount of renewable power to 70 percent by 2019 amid concerns that the plan relies on building two new natural gas power plants to help make up the rest of the city’s energy mix. Full Story
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The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggested that Texas leaders should play along with her agency’s sweeping Clean Power Plan, if only to avoid a more rigid carbon-cutting plan imposed by the federal government. Full Story
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As Energy Future Holdings continues what it hopes will be the final leg of messy bankruptcy proceedings, a recent dispute with the federal government highlights just how far a mammoth corporate reorganization can reach. Full Story
In the Roundup: A Houston nondiscrimination ordinance goes down, state regulators find no clear link between oilfield activity and some North Texas earthquakes, and a local police department gets the legal go-ahead to keep its "In God We Trust" stickers. Full Story
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House Speaker Joe Straus announced Thursday that a new House Committee on Federal Environmental Regulation will examine a litany of new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency efforts that have roiled Texas leaders and industry. Full Story
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