ARLINGTON, Texas — Deirdre Diamond is frustrated and concerned that another concrete batch plant is coming to her town. Gunter, located about 50 miles north of Dallas, already has 11 permitted ...

Growing up in East Aldine, Shirley Ronquillo fondly remembers visits to James Driver Park. "This is where our families would come and have picnics and birthday parties," she said. "I grew up here." ...

Republican state leaders this year rejected major new restrictions on concrete batch plants and the pollutants they emit, leaving residents and environmental advocates to pin their hopes on a series ...

Galen Farrington watched bulldozers, backhoes and construction equipment pull past his neighborhood and into the grassy lot across the road, and the 75-year-old retired school teacher knew the home ...

Communities statewide have demanded that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality strengthen environmental regulations for concrete batch plants, which combine raw materials such as sand, water ...

Editor's note: This story corrected the spelling of Trip Tollison's name and clarifies subcontractors' responsibilities over permits. Two companies constructed and operated three concrete batch plants ...

The proposed concrete batch plant would be placed 850 feet from The Settlement neighborhood and 1,825 feet from the residential community Avalon at Argyle.

Most construction companies you talk to do not voluntarily sign their crews up to complete airport paving projects. It’s grueling, painstaking work that requires intensive training and permitting by ...

Children hold signs in opposition of a proposed concrete batch plant in northeast Harris County on April 6, 2022. ARLINGTON — Deirdre Diamond is frustrated and concerned that another concrete batch ...

Read full article: Man arrested in connection with years of ‘Peeping Tom’ reports on Northwest Side, SAPD says The shooting happened just before 8:30 a.m. in the 12200 block of Dewitt Avenue near ...

A concrete plant in Austin. Residents who live near concrete batch plants complain that they contaminate the air with dust. The residents are pressuring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ...