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“You Need To Air Out Your Dirty Laundry”: An Anatomy of a TCEQ Public Hearing

1 week ago | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Paulina Velasco |Alex Ip

This is the third story of a three-part series produced by The Xylom and co-published by Drilled, Floodlight, and Deceleration News. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. As around 200 residents and advocates trickle into Portland Community Center on the evening of January 11th, 2024, they are greeted by a panel on a stage: Enbridge representatives to the left, TCEQ lawyers and permitting staff behind another table on the right.
Texas measles cases grow to 728. Track the spread here.

2 weeks ago | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Terri Langford |Yuriko Schumacher |Stephen Simpson

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The number of cases reported in Texas' historic measles outbreak has risen to 728 cases, 10 more cases over the past week. Of those, 94 patients have been hospitalized, and two school-aged children have died since the outbreak began in January. Friday's update still shows the measles outbreak slowing down.
Brighter future? Solar apprenticeships add renewable energy skills to local jobs

3 weeks ago | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Lisa Rowan |Matt Busse

When Mason Taylor was getting ready to graduate from high school in 2022, he thought he would have to take an entry-level technician job with a company in Tennessee. Taylor grew up in the town of Dryden in rural Lee County, in the westernmost sliver of Virginia between Kentucky and Tennessee. He had come to love the electrical courses he took in high school because there was always something new to learn, always a new way to challenge himself.
‘Too soon to tell’ the effects of federal funding decisions on local public transportation, county leaders say

Feb 11, 2025 | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Alana Rocha
Where’s the beef? Not all Nebraska producers on board with Pillen’s proposed ‘lab-grown meat’ ban

Feb 7, 2025 | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Alana Rocha
Wyoming could gain the most from federal climate funding, but obstacles remain

Aug 31, 2023 | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Diane Mikho

Wyoming Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, leading Republican voices on energy policy, have been among the foremost critics of the nation’s first comprehensive climate law.
Poor regulatory safeguards leave farmworkers suffocating in the face of increasing heat waves

Aug 24, 2023 | ruralnewsnetwork.org | Diane Mikho

Juan Peña, 29, has worked in the fields since childhood, often exposing his body to extreme heat like the wave hitting the Midwest this week. The heat can cause such deep pain in his whole body that he just wants to lie down, he said, as his body tells him he can’t take another day on the job. On those days, his only motivation to get out of bed is to earn dollars to send to his 10-month-old baby in Mexico.