Hush! Frito-Lay to pull noisy SunChips bags, go back to original after complaints

Hush! Frito-Lay to pull most noisy SunChips bags

EPA slaps $15 million fine on BP for Texas City refinery Clean Air Act violations

EPA fines BP $15 million for Texas City violations

Pa. DEP chief targets Texas driller for gas-tainted water fix, urges calm in tense Dimock

Pa. DEP targets Texas driller for tainted water

Texas environmental regulators award air permit to contentious Gulf coal-fired plant

Texas regulators give permit to Gulf coal plant

Study: Mixing endangered Florida panthers with their Texas cousins left more and hardier cats

Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates

NM governor feels the love from chimps as he pitches alternative in dispute over their future

Chimps’ future prompts debate over NM primate lab

Texas, EPA present draft plan to fix bad industrial air permits as new problems arise

Texas, EPA present draft plan to fix air permits

EPA official says agency working with Texas companies on truce over touchy permitting issues

Official: EPA, Texas working on permit solution

Boeing gets $1.24 billion extension to space station contract with NASA

Boeing gets $1.24B extension to space station deal

Texas congressman among dozens of Democrats trying to hang onto conservative districts

The White House

Lawmakers say more air monitors in north Texas will increase data from gas drilling area

More air monitors planned for Texas drilling area

Republicans, Democrats, industry press to get Texas to issue EPA-approved operating permits

Texas industries press to get EPA-approved permits

Texas environmental regulators propose beefed up rules for oil, gas drilling in Barnett Shale

Texas proposes new rules for shale gas drilling

Texas attorney general appeals EPA decision to overturn state’s air permitting program

The White House

EPA says TransCanada’s environmental report doesn’t address key concerns

EPA: Keystone XL impact statement needs revising

EPA takes new look at natural gas drilling, water issues key to nation’s energy future

EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues

Pa. gas well blowout report cites inexcusable mistakes, problems with equipment testing

Pa. blowout report cites mistakes, training

Campaigning with Texas Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Bill White: A run through Pecos

US President Barack Obama

APNewsBreak: Environmental groups accuse Exxon Mobil of thousands of Clean Air Act violations

APNewsBreak: Groups say Exxon violates US air laws

NASA’s top shuttle partner to lay off 15 percent of work force as shuttle program nears end

Top space shuttle contractor schedules layoffs

Texas Industries to keep Midlothian wet cement kilns closed permanently; critics hail move

TXI to keep Midlothian wet cement kilns closed

Oil Spill Effects On Environment

EPA rejects 16-year-old Texas air permit program, leaves nation’s largest refineries in limbo

President Barack Obama

Feds invest millions to keep groceries open as many rural residents face long drives for food

Grocery closings leave rural residents few options

Toshiba to build electric vehicle motors at Houston plant

Toshiba to build electric vehicle motors

HOUSTON — Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that it will begin building motors for electric and hybrid vehicles at its plants in Texas.

Visitors to east Texas’ Caddo Lake find ‘hauntingly beautiful’ tree-lined waterways

Texas’ mystical Caddo Lake beckons visitors

Hostile reception from lawmakers greets BP CEO set to says he’s ‘devastated’ by oil spill

BP CEO to tell Congress he’s ‘devastated’ by spill

EPA tells 2 more companies to bypass Texas for refinery air permits, go directly through feds

EPA tells companies to bypass Texas air permitting

Texas asks federal court to intervene in fight with EPA over air pollution from oil refineries

Texas asks court to intervene in fight with EPA

Texas uses water-based cranes, shears to target decades of scuttled vessels in Gulf of Mexico

Texas targets decades of abandoned ships off coast

EPA offers to work with industry to fix faulty Texas air permits

EPA goes to industry to fix faulty Texas permits

Cosmic keepsake: Launch your face into space aboard 1 of the last 2 NASA shuttle flights

Here’s your chance to get your face in space

Texas Gov. Perry says his state is a model for pollution regulation and clean air

Texas governor says state a model for clean air

Gun-toting pirates, gang war threaten fishing boats on lake that straddles US-Mexico border

Pirates threaten boats on US-Mexico border lake

Texas gov. makes plea to Obama: Stop EPA from taking over Texas’ air quality program

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