AUSTIN (KXAN) — The state agency in charge of regulating air quality in Texas held the first of three hearings across the state Wednesday about changes in how permits are issued for concrete batch ...

EAST ALDINE, Texas (KTRK) -- The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is looking at changing the regulations surrounding the air we breathe. This pertains, specifically, to air quality standards ...

A worker tends to a mixer truck at the the Texas Star Ready Mix concrete batch plant in Joppa, a South Dallas neighborhood long plagued by industrial polluters. Courtesy: Temeckia Derrough State ...

Concrete batch plants are where materials like cement, water, sand and rocks are combined and mixed together. It's then poured into trucks and transported to nearby construction projects. The Texas ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Dozens of people who live in northern Fort Worth told a state panel Monday they do not want a concrete batch plant constructed near their homes. The Organic Recycler, a landscaping ...