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September 24, 2014
Dallas Apartments and Hotels Are Terrible at Recycling
It's really easy to recycle in Dallas if you live in a house. Just dump that unsorted mass of old newspapers, empty soda cans and milk cartons into a cavernous blue bin, drag it to the curb and let one the city's lumbering dump trucks haul it away. For those who live in apartments -- nearly half of ... More >>
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August 4, 2014
State Health Services Says Dallas Bag Ban Must Exempt Poor People from Five-Cent Fee
If the point of a plastic bag fee is get people to stop using plastic bags, then it may not make sense to give the bags away to people who can't afford the fee, though the Texas Department of State Health Services says poor people on federal aid shouldn't have to pay for grocery bags. A few weeks ... More >>
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March 24, 2014
Dallas Set to Decide on Plastic Bag Ban on Wednesday
It's entirely possible that the Dallas City Council will show up on Wednesday, argue for an hour or two, then decide that it's not quite ready to vote on banning plastic and other single-use carryout bags, Dwaine Caraway's March-vote-or-bust pledge be damned. But, thanks to a draft of the ordinance ... More >>
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August 26, 2013
The Industry Unveils a New Tactic in the Dallas Fracking Debate: Calling Its Opponents Liars
Environmental activists, in spite of the lobbying of the energy industry and some sleight of hand by city staff, appear to be winning the fracking debate. The City Plan Commission has twice denied Trinity East Energy permits to drill on city parkland it leased for $19 million. Last week, it effectiv ... More >>
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February 26, 2013
When Should Dallas Require Apartments to Recycle? There's Still Some Debate About That.
When city staff first unveiled their vision to transform Dallas into a "zero waste" city by 2040, there was immediate pushback. No one quibbled with the goal of waste reduction, but pretty much everyone quibbled with the way the city should get there. Environmentalists critiqued the plan for puttin ... More >>
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February 14, 2013
Dallas' City Plan Commission Just Got a Very Special Workshop on How Safe Gas Drilling Is
When we last left the beleaguered members of the City Plan Commission, they were opting to once again delay a vote on energy company Trinity East's application to drill for natural gas in the floodplain along the Trinity River. This morning, the CPC was subjected to a four-hour workshop on gas drill ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2013
Before They Vote on Fracking, Dallas' Plan Commissioners Will Get a Gas-Drilling Primer
The city's Gas Drilling Task Force never came to a consensus on the potential impact of allowing fracking within city limits, ultimately splintering into two opposing camps. But they did spend the better part of a year researching and debating the issue's many facets. It was curious, then, when the ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2012
As City Plan Commission Takes No Action On Gas Drilling, XTO Reportedly Pulls Its Drilling Request [Updated]
Back in September, using the format of a totally ridiculous board game, we recapped the fight over gas drilling on land owned by the city of Dallas. At that point, the drilling task force had long since wrapped up its work, and a vote from the City Council on new drilling regulations was imminent, w ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
All Sides Are Pissed at City Council as Fracking Debate Comes to a Head
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Morning News' Randy Lee Loftis posed a question we'd been wondering about ourselves: Just what the hell happened to that fracking ordinance the City Council was supposed to pass, the one that would finally and completely resolve all those unanswered questions about gas ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2012
Environmentalists to City: Your Long-Term Trash Plan is a Burning Pile of Garbage
On Tuesday, you saw a glimpse of Dallas' garbage future. The city's long-term solid waste plan had some relatively progressive ideas -- mandatory recycling, a plastic bag ban and "zero waste," for example -- but those won't even be up for actual discussion for another couple of decades. Once the ide ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Trinity East Wants to Drill in the Floodplain
Ah, the Trinity River corridor, that swath of green that anchors urban Dallas to Mother Nature. How we cherish it. Unless, that is, someone -- Mayor Mike Rawlings, for example -- wants to build a toll road through its heart ... Or maybe dump a few hundred gallons of pig blood into the river ... O ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
The Call for Tighter Fracking Regulations in Dallas Got a Little Louder Last Night
Councilman Scott Griggs kicked off last night's festival of shared discontent over the possibility of drilling in Dallas under the ordinance changes recommended by the drilling task force. Two city drilling task force members, a former member of the Fort Worth drilling task force, members of environ ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2012
Butting Heads and Changing Minds Over Drilling in Dallas as Task Force Wraps It Up
City ordinances governing drilling are based on the perspectives, experiences and whims of the group gathered at the table. It's the nature of creating rules governing a contentious issue with contradictory information and competing interests coming from both sides -- the drilling industry and anti- ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Calling Shotgun on Where and When to Drill
OK, let's get this straight: If a natural gas company wants to sink a well within 1,000 feet of your Dallas home, that would be bad. Not healthy. Not safe. Stop it. But what if you don't care whether your neighbor is a drilling rig? Or, perhaps you're a developer who owns one of the few remaining c ... More >>