As Texans grapple with an influx of concrete batch plants and the toxic dust they sometimes bring to nearby homes, schools and parks, new restrictions to regulate them appear to again be hitting a ...

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 ...

Across the street from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Houston headquarters, Jessica Koch pulled up a smartphone photo of her 4-year-old daughter, her little face smeared with blood.

SAN ANTONIO — For the first time in a decade, air quality standards for concrete batch plants are up for revisions in Texas, and critics who have wanted stricter environmental regulations for years ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Wednesday rejected pleas from residents and organizations not to discard a limit on potentially harmful emissions from hundreds of plants that supply ...

A batch concrete plant is waiting for permits to resume construction in Rendon. David Smith and his neighbors oppose the plant, which is about 200 yards from their backyards. Bob Booth Bob Booth ...

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 ...

Around 500 residents crowded in to an events center in Mansfield Monday night, urging state officials to deny a permit for a concrete batch plant and telling the J7 Ready Mix company to withdraw its ...