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CUERO - Standing in front of a dry-erase board, petroleum engineer Kathy Martin sketched a drawing of a vertical well, ... Read Story »
The Environmental Protection Agency's new rules on air pollution from hydraulic fracturing won't be put into full effect until 2015, ... Read Story »
An algal bloom led to the closure of many Texas coastal waters to the harvesting of shellfish, The Texas Department ... Read Story »
Seadrift shrimper Diane Wilson doused herself in what was intended to look like oil during a June 9 Senate Energy ... Read Story »
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As a tug-of-war rages on between a federal and state agency over regulation of air emissions, another percolates in the ... Read Story »
Using salvaged tin cans filled with rocks gathered from the playground, fifth-graders at Guadalupe Elementary School were practicing what they ... Read Story »
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Brownsville made a lot of news late last year when it voted to levy a charge to use plastic bags ... Read Story »
A shale formation that belts South Texas is one of a few silver linings for the oil and gas industry ... Read Story »
A temporary cap has been placed on a natural gas well that blew out in El Campo on April 15. Read Story »
The city of Victoria signed an agreement to sell methane gas produced from the bowels of its landfill. Read Story »
EDNA - The Lavaca-Navidad River Authority voted 6-2 on Wednesday to fund a $310,000 feasibility study that would examine options ... Read Story »
Beaches in the Golden Crescent will get a spring cleaning this weekend. Read Story »
Thomas Webb is not working for the first time in 32 years after being placed on furlough by an offshore ... Read Story »
In Monday's Advocast: An international nonprofit agency is doing its part to save one of the rarest birds on Earth ... Read Story »
The 25th Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Fall Cleanup will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at three sites ... Read Story »
Strumming guitars made of landfill-rescued gas cans, Vocal Trash cast members, Greg Dugan and Larry Parish screamed across a darkened ... Read Story »
Propelled only by weight - and a shove from a teammate - racers from 11 schools competed in the Blue ... Read Story »