StateImpact Texas is a collaboration of local public radio stations KUT Austin, KUHF Houston and NPR. Reporters Mose Buchele,Terrence Henry and Dave Fehling travel the state to report on how energy and environmental issues affect you. Read their reports and listen to them on NPR member stations. -more-
December 27, 2011 · The National Park Service is beginning to map out hundreds of old smuggler roads along the Arizona border. The agency plans to return scarred land, including Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, to natural desert. From our Fronteras Desk, Michel Marizco reports.
November 18, 2011 · Brace yourself for more extreme weather. A group of more than 200 scientists convened by the United Nations says in a new report that climate change will bring more heat waves, more intense rainfall and more expensive natural disasters. NPR's Richard Harris reports.
November 18, 2011 · The decision to put off construction of parts of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline was lauded by environmentalists. The plan is to pipe oil from the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Many investors and industry observers in Texas think they already know how the cards will fall. For State Impact Texas, Mose Buchele reports.
November 4, 2011 ·The Environmental Protection Agency is set to start a federal probe into whether the controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing is spoiling and diminishing drinking water supplies.Texas Public Radio's Steve Short reports.
