In a battle of press conferences Thursday, the City of El Paso and the area’s only food bank dueled over allegations that the nonprofit violated federal reporting requirements after it received coronavirus relief funds from ...
Correction: El Paso Water officials misstated the number of gallons of raw sewage released per day. The correct figure is 10 million. When it comes to the raw sewage flowing into the Rio Grande, utility ...
A U.S. Supreme Court case over how water from the Rio Grande is allocated is underway and may finally put an end to a years-long dispute over how border states use the precious resource. The ...
Attorneys laid out their arguments Monday during the first day of a virtual trial in a lawsuit over Rio Grande water with Texas and the federal government alleging that New Mexico’s use of groundwater cut ...
There are bodies of water and governmental bodies, and the El Paso Public Service Board is an intersection of both. The seven-member board, composed of six members appointed by the City Council plus the mayor, ...
The untreated sewage from West El Paso has crawled about 20 miles downstream to just outside the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park. But that’s where it will stop. El Paso Water officials said they are working ...
President Joe Biden appointed Maria-Elena Giner, a civil engineer and long-time leader on border sanitation projects, as the new commissioner of the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission. The federal agency – binationally operated by the ...
Despite the long lines outside the area’s only food bank, officials there said they will consider cutting more programs and continue current closures if they don’t receive additional funds and more volunteers. Susan Goodell, the ...
An 8-year-old Supreme Court lawsuit about a dispute over groundwater pumping on the Rio Grande between Texas and New Mexico is making its way to trial. Texas alleges in the lawsuit that New Mexico farmers’ ...
El Pasoans still have time to tell officials from El Paso Electric how they feel about the utility’s proposed double-digit rate increases for household electric bills. Every four years, Texas law requires utilities to evaluate the ...
Flushing the toilet, taking a shower or using the sink generates wastewater, a process that usually goes forgotten, unless storage and treatment fails — then sewage is often too noticeable. Several major pipe ruptures mean ...
More than 150 million gallons of sewage from El Paso’s West Side is flowing into the Rio Grande. The wastewater, which includes waste from toilets, showers and sink drains, is untreated. While that amount only ...
Both the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers shrunk in 2021, another bad water year in a two-decade megadrought brought on by a warming Western United States. Demands on the rivers — from growing cities, agriculture, ...
Update 12:50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27: Special Master Michael Melloy ruled Friday to split in half the trial for the long-running U.S. Supreme Court case over Rio Grande water between Texas and New Mexico. Melloy ...
Aug. 26 update: The six members of the El Paso state legislative delegation wrote a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday, urging him to reconsider his decision to relocate Texas National Guard from El ...
The fight on Newman 6 is over. El Paso Electric and the coalition of community and environmental groups opposing the construction of the new methane power plant unit in Northeast El Paso announced an agreement ...
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Aug. 9 released a report on the impacts of climate change and how human activity is contributing to “unprecedented” and rapid change to the Earth’s climate. ...
The Southwestern United States is on the frontlines of climate change and the decades-long effects on the El Paso area will likely worsen, local and regional experts said, unless international governments curb fossil fuel emissions. ...
One of El Paso’s largest food distribution sites will close and others will reduce hours despite the amplified need for food due to the pandemic, officials said, citing a lack of manpower. “We’re still able ...
Whatever the weather, John Fausett sings. The longtime meteorologist has composed songs about heat waves, blizzards, storm spotters and “one team working together” at the El Paso National Weather Service forecast office in Santa Teresa. ...
Decades-long efforts to protect Castner Range, a portion of the Franklin Mountains, have been hampered by danger from the old Army unexploded ordnance in the Chihuahuan Desert. However, conservation groups and U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, ...
Sunny skies returned to El Paso this week after Sunday’s monsoon storm that left parts of the city’s East Side submerged in floodwater. But water safety experts and city officials cautioned that still waters still ...
With an uncertain monsoon season ahead, weather experts warn another round of wet weather in El Paso could mean additional flooding in the Sun City through the rest of the summer. Meteorologist Anthony Brown with ...
ANAPRA, MEXICO — Elena Moreno has lived in this impoverished neighborhood in Ciudad Juárez for nearly 30 years. She’s raised six children, seen politicians come and go and survived waves of violence. But one thing ...
ANAPRA, Mexico — The days-long blackouts are costly for the families in Pastor Ismael Martinez’s care as they result in spoiled food, ruined appliances and water shortages. Martinez operates Pan de Vida, a migrant shelter ...
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego has approved the sale and use of most fireworks in the unincorporated areas of the county after the recent rainfall in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. This is ...
The record rainfall this week in El Paso broke several weeks of triple-digit high temperatures, and doubled the area’s total in 24 hours, causing localized flash flooding in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. ...
Fireworks and festivities of Fourth of July are around the corner, but dry and hot conditions make the El Paso area a potential tinderbox. Personal fireworks are banned within El Paso city limits, but are ...
As El Paso experiences a long-term heat wave with temperatures climbing above 100 degrees during an extreme drought, concerns increase about whether West Texas and parts of New Mexico could be without power at times. ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Shannon Ivey grew up alongside the pecan orchards on his family’s farm. Now 41, the fourth-generation pecan farmer recently walked under the shade of the nearly 50 year-old trees planted in the ...
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