The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is about to make the same mistake again. Two years ago, after many years of challenges from opponents, TCEQ issued a permit that allows Dripping Springs to discharge its treated wastewater into Onion Creek. One of the arguments that the city made for ...

Two pending wastewater permits pose problems for local pristine streams, but you'll have an opportunity to comment on them when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) holds public meetings on each permit. The worst one would allow the proposed Madelynn Estates subdivision to dischar...

For a moment, imagine you’re not staring at the pixels of our newsletter in your inbox, but rather, a gently flowing stream with bald cypress trees hugging its limestone banks. The sun is shining, the ruby-crowned kinglets are chirping, and the occasional cricket frog vocalizes its iconic call. W...

  If you wanted to build a big subdivision in a really bad place, where would you put it? Would you build it in a place with lots of rocky gaps and cracks on the ground that would allow dirty surface water to seep into the Edwards Aquifer, which provides water for hundreds of residential wells a...