Growing up in East Aldine, Shirley Ronquillo fondly remembers visits to James Driver Park. "This is where our families would come and have picnics and birthday parties," she said. "I grew up here." ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pushed the state's environmental agency Tuesday to immediately stop permitting cement production plants, citing opposition to a Dallas-area project that mirrors frustration over ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state's environmental agency, to halt approving permits for cement production plants in Texas until the 2025 ...

Aug. 23—They came in numbers, they brought receipts and they had a united message — we don't want you here. More than a hundred area property owners and a mix of nature and wildlife activists gathered ...

COURT NEXT WEEK. PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO BUILD A CONCRETE PLAN IN MIDDLETOWN ACROSS FROM THE LAKE FORCE NEIGHBORHOOD. FAMILIES IN THE AREA SAY THAT WEREN’T NOTIFIED AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT ON ...

ALDINE, Texas (KTRK) -- A passionate and sometimes tense meeting in east Aldine had Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia offering to buy a piece of vacant property for $600,000, and ...

Residents in far north Fort Worth said a proposed concrete plant would endanger public health. Harrison Mantas [email protected] Roughly 100 people lobbied a state environmental agency Monday ...

Communities statewide have demanded that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality strengthen environmental regulations for concrete batch plants, which combine raw materials such as sand, water ...

Correction, April 17, 2024 at 11:06 a.m.: A previous version of this story incorrectly said that Lt. Gov. Patrick's letter asked the TCEQ to halt approving permits for concrete production plants. His ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sent a letter to the state environmental agency asking it to stop approving new permits for cement plants statewide until the Legislature can weigh in next year. Patrick expressed ...