Austin cycling activists worry that bicyclists and pedestrians' concerns will lose out to drivers' interests in the implementation of the Seaholm District Master Plan. For the first time in recorded history, the Rio Grande has failed to reach the Gulf of Mexico. With the current state of the environment, long belabored by activists and scientists who point to any number of warning signs of planetary collapse, it makes sense, Chronicle contributor Dan Oko writes, that writers with deep green inclinations would juggle literary aesthetics and scientific data in their efforts to jar us from the stupefying impact of too much information and too much bad news. Closing parts of Balcones Canyon Preserve angers mountain bikers and doesn't do enough to save wildlife.
Legislators introduce a bill to protect endangered Texas bats.
Spicewood residents are protesting plans by Rainbow Materials to build a concrete batch plant in their small, semirural community. The Border Patrol settles a suit by several environmental groups, who claimed that the agency's beefed-up efforts at the border have harmed several endangered species. The anti-Longhorn Pipeline contingent rallies in the wake of a preliminary approval of the pipeline. PIPE Coalition, an anti-Longhorn Pipeline group, has sued its Web designer for allegedly changing the site's content. As the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission undergoes Sunset review, a new report details a host of citizen concerns about the agency's complaint review process.