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The future of renewable energy in the Crossroads looks bright.
An attorney with more than 30 years of experience in environmental law will speak at the next Lavaca Bay Foundation meeting.
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Guadalupe County has a sore spot.
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Both fish and fishermen should be happy this summer with changes made to Lake Texana.
Lavaca Bay Foundation members will learn during their Thursday meeting from a nonprofit with a similar mission.
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Pete Villarreal calls her his lab partner, but to be honest, she doesn’t have to do much work other than be herself.
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The Guadalupe River is flowing faster in the Crossroads because officials were releasing water from one lake upstream at the same time equipment failed on another.
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced this month that it found pseudogymnoascus destructans in Victoria County.
A part of the Crossroads quivered Tuesday.
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The state fined Invista $30,135 this week for not complying with its air permit.
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REFUGIO – To many drivers rumbling by, La Rosa Ranch looks picturesque this time of year.
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When the floodwaters drained from Riverside Park in the days after Hurricane Harvey, lots of soil went with them, taking large chunks from the bank of the Guadalupe River.
Point Comfort must pay an almost $24,000 fine for discharging more pollutants than allowed from its wastewater treatment.
The Lavaca Bay Foundation will learn about the importance of freshwater flowing from rivers to estuaries Thursday.
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HALLETTSVILLE – James Migl pointed a kind of cap gun into the air.
The Coast Guard released two rehabilitated sea turtles near Port Aransas on Friday.
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Victoria County is trying to encourage companies to use brackish groundwater.
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Formosa has released plastic pellets into Lavaca Bay and Cox Creek.
A federal judge Wednesday heard about how effective Formosa Plastics Corp. is at catching and cleaning up pellets and powder at and around its plant in Calhoun County.
A former Formosa Plastics employee remembers the day he realized the plastic pellets were escaping into adjacent bodies of water.
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Standing before the judge, the activists’ attorney held a bagful of plastic pellets for the courtroom to see.
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NURSERY – Dirt flew up from the back of Jeff Kyle’s pickup truck as he quickly drove across his family’s sprawling ranch.
POINT COMFORT – Diane Wilson’s voice echoed through a megaphone near Formosa Plastics on Saturday morning.
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AUSTWELL – Jacquelyn Howard peered through a scope atop an observation deck.
State Rep. Geanie Morrison recently filed a bill to remove Victoria County from a list of counties affected by air quality issues.
Volunteers removed 769 crab traps from San Antonio, Aransas and Matagorda bays during February.
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Researchers are using satellites to see how much flaring is occurring in the Eagle Ford Shale region rather than solely relying on data reported by industry to the state.
The owner of Miller’s Seafood in Port Lavaca will speak Thursday at the Lavaca Bay Foundation meeting.
Jeremy Conkle is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. The name of the department in which he works was incorrect in a story on Page A1 Monday. In the photo that accompanied the story, Ronnie Hamrick, a mem…
In the backup area behind the new ocelot exhibit at the Texas Zoo, a baby ocelot and its mother are getting to know each other.
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The smoke that billowed from tanks that caught fire Monday afternoon in DeWitt County likely contained hundreds of toxic byproducts of the oil and gas industry, environmental advocates said Tuesday.
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Five slender snakes slithered away recently after taking up residence in an umbrella in the backyard of a Victoria home.
The National Audubon Society is proposing between $10 million and $40 million be used to create barrier islands in Matagorda Bay and another $820,000 be used to increase the size of Chester Island.
Texas coastal waters will be closed to crabbing with wire mesh traps from Feb. 15-24.
The Matagorda Bay Foundation has hired its first executive director, an important step toward growing its environmental stewardship, advocacy, education and community support.
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Formosa released more than 1 million pounds of contaminants that it was not authorized to in 2017, earning it the title of “worst polluter” in a 15-county region, according to a report released Thursday by Environment Texas Research and Policy Center.
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The state fined Ineos Nitriles at Green Lake $15,802 on Wednesday for violating rules related to how it operates wells that store its waste.
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Changes could be coming to one of Calhoun County’s most popular destinations, Magnolia Beach.
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A plastics company has been fined almost $122,000 for polluting a South Texas waterway with plastic pellets, marking a victory for a group of residents who for years have fought pollution in the region’s creeks, bays and shorelines.
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CHRISTINE – Amid the golden acres of rolling grassland, there are acres on the Peeler ranch where trees and grass won’t grow.
Some think enjoying the outdoors is every Texan’s birthright.
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LA WARD – The excitement they exuded standing still on a patch of coastal prairie matched what some may feel on an African safari.
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BLACKJACK PENINSULA – A family of whooping cranes stepped forward on their stilt-like legs while probing the ground for wolfberries and blue crabs.
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Three years ago, Bob Friedrichs looked at a map and noticed no one was counting the birds located at the confluence of the Lavaca and Navidad rivers, so he decided to do something about it.
A settlement agreement the City Council approved Tuesday gives Victoria the ability to withdraw enough water from the Guadalupe River to fill one-fourth of the Houston Astrodome.
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PORT LAVACA – Stacy Kirkham caught a 90-pound blacktip shark in the Intracoastal Waterway after Hurricane Harvey.
The Mid-Coast Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists is recruiting for its 2019 class.
Calhoun County game wardens appeared Tuesday night on the season premiere of a reality TV show.
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During the past five years, Crossroads companies released less of the type of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet, but the reason why is up for debate.
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The state fined a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Hallettsville about $26,000 on Wednesday for how it handled its trash.
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Residents questioned Wednesday why the state’s water quality standard for Arenosa Creek was so stringent when few people have access to it or swim in it.
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