Sierra Club Sues EPA Over Texas’ Shoddy Haze Plan

Another development in the Fayette coal plant saga

"...suit would require stricter standards for Texas’ worst polluting plants in the nation, including Austin Energy’s own Fayette Power..."

June 15, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Mitigation Goes Nowhere

Both developers and enviros shoot down staff's new ideas for aquifer development

"...A proposed mitigation policy that sought to please both sides in the..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin Climate Protection Plan

The five components

"...ACPP's Five-Point Plan1) Municipal operations..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Anger at Water Plant Plan Boils Over

City planners and residents at odds over future use of Guerrero Park

"...Indignantly opposed to city plans for a 30-acre, $227 million water treatment plant in..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Environment: Adaptation and Mitigation

A few early bills promise environmental action – good and bad

"...the early filings, Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, proposes big plans on climate change, water planning, and environmental justice. Rep...."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

On Austin Climate Equity, More Plan Than Action

Staffing crunch slows down sustainability efforts

"...Council received a briefing on the Austin Climate Equity Plan, the successor (adopted last fall) to the city's original..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Council: Passes Corridor Plan, Kills CURE

Council paves the way for a new urban makeover of the strip east of I-35

"...Rest assured, though, that the East Riverside Corridor Regulating Plan secured final approval (despite incorrect reporting on this end..."

May 17, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

Pelosi Plugs Local Energy Plan

Nancy Pelosi does Austin.

"...Doggett, to talk up energy independence and global warming mitigation, what she called the "flagship issues" of the the..."

Oct. 30, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Turning Point

Relations on the Mend

"...November, S.O.S. representatives failed to effectively refute the Forum's pro-mitigation arguments, and came out looking like the head-in-the-sand anti-growthers..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Benign Growth?

The State of Affairs

"...Officials are hoping that approval of the mitigation policy will result in -- in the words of..."

April 16, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

As Austin Grows, So Does the Risk of Flood

Forget the 100-year storms. City flooding happens all the time, often right in your backyard.

"...(pits designed to temporarily counteract runoff); and other flood mitigation improvements. (Such efforts were detailed in the first issue..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Naked City

"...misunderstood the reporter's final question about Perry's school finance plan. Later Perry apologized for the "inappropriate banter" that he..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City

Race and APD, and so much more, for City Hall this week

"...ending balance – to start implementing the APD Action Plan announced in the wake of the Glasgow indictment, grand..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Night of the Living BCCP, Part 37

Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan: Half a Loaf?

"...agreed on a framework for the Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan (BCCP). They agreed to prepare and submit a 10(A)..."

May 19, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Austin Heightens COVID Guidelines for Special Event Permits

Attendee screening, distancing provisions take effect Monday

"...will need to do more to show how they plan to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 as part of..."

Aug. 29, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

The Daily Hustle: 6/14/10

No future for Red River?

"...hubub was council's hearing of the Waller Creek Master Plan. Since the Hustle is for the kids, let's take..."

June 14, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Wildfire Prevention Waiting for Ignition

City of Austin's wildfire prevention efforts lag behind the threat

"...coordinating among agencies in order to establish a regional mitigation plan. Of that money, $1 million would be used..."

Aug. 31, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

How Much of Zilker Park Can Austin Return to Nature?

Balancing ecological preservation and the human element in city's Zilker Park Vision Plan

"...city is at work on the first-ever long-range vision plan for the century-old park. And while that work is..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Public Notice: Homes for the Holidays?

Housing Blueprint Gets an Implementation Plan

"...press, the city has just released the draft Implementation Plan for the first Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint, a vision..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Odds on Mayor Adler’s $720 Million Mobility Bond

Is the plan just daring enough to work?

"...most substantively, that the voters had rejected a rail plan just two years ago – but that didn't placate..."

Oct. 28, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

First-Ever State Flood Planning Project Underway

Plan offers strategies to mitigate risk including structural improvements and buyouts

"...development. In acknowledgment of that, the first statewide flood plan in Texas history is underway, with a draft due..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Following Protests, Expect a Jump in COVID-19 Cases

City releases new metric for judging stages of risk, and promises better outreach to communities of color

"...– a stark contrast to Gov. Greg Abbott's speedy plan for reopening businesses and reintegrating Texans into broader society...."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Kimberley Jones and Beth Sullivan

Advocacy Group Pushes Back at UT's Reopening Strategy

UT grad students: COVID-19 plans are "inadequate" and "dangerous"

"...see as an "inadequate and in some ways dangerous plan" to reopen the Forty Acres amid the COVID-19 crisis...."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

On Budget, Council Agrees to Disagree (Updated)

Spending plan includes $4.6 million in last-minute additions

"...Spencer Cronk in his $4.2 billion FY 2020 spending plan. About $2.5 million of that was offset by higher-than-­estimated..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines

A leading role at City Hall?

"...PSH supply. She told us that she supports the plan to rent the property for a ProLodge but isn't..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...conditions and directing the city manager to develop a plan of action within 90 days. All the shiny scene..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Point Austin: The Tree in the Way

Commission decision could lead to changes in tree ordinance

"...The Planning Commission spent weeks listening to public testimony and deliberating..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Then There's This: Salvaging a Middle Ground

Once a scrap yard, always a scrap yard

"...long, sleepy stretch of road that time and city planners forgot. An assortment of salvage yards and repair shops..."

March 30, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...• The Planning Commission voted 6-3 in favor of rezoning a private..."

June 13, 2008 News Feature

I-35: TxDot Makes (or Breaks) History?

The I-35 expansion project runs into trouble as it tries to avoid "impacting" historic Eastside properties.

"...a project this size -- TxDOT must adjust its plans to minimize those impacts on historic areas...."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Dave Mann

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