While the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) affirms in its mission statement that it “strives to protect our state’s human and natural resources,” that protection has a qualifier: “consistent with sustainable economic development.” In any showdown between profit and health, profit usually wins out. In Texas, the regulatory agency for the environment is open for business. Following are four recent examples in which business interests were dominant over public and environmental health.... by Fran Sage    more »

We stood there in that mass of big birds (there were thousands and thousands of them there) and suddenly the snow geese rose and flew overhead in wave after wave honking and flying and filling the air, vivid white against the blue skies with the mountains nearby. by Fran Sage    more »