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 ...
El Paso’s June is heating up and the triple-digit heat wave expected to last through next week could pose a health threat to some of the city’s most vulnerable. To help counter the risks, the ...
The Newman 6 project will have its day in court. An administrative law judge ruled Thursday that the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, N.M., can move forward to challenge the state of ...
El Paso’s temperature will top 100 degrees for the first time this year in the coming days, a mark that will likely be topped repeatedly over the next three months. Although El Pasoans have come ...
The Rio Grande will be running in El Paso soon, as water was released Memorial Day from the Caballo Dam. The continued drought means a shorter irrigation season as less water made its way downstream ...
For now, the Rio Grande outside El Paso is a bare sandbed stretching miles, but in a couple days there’ll be water running in it again, albeit later than usual. For the people, wildlife and ...
The Environmental Protection Agency said this week it will “correct” the passing designation for El Paso’s air quality due to the impact the city has on air pollution levels in Doña Ana County. The EPA ...
El Paso’s taxpayers, city officials and government watchdogs agree — the city’s recycling program is far from perfect. Contaminated materials, mixed messaging on how to recycle, and rogue collection crews that “cut corners” have cost ...
By Claudia Silva, New Mexico In Depth When Ida Garcia looks out the kitchen window during cool mornings, plumes billowing from a power plant less than a mile away in Texas obscure her view of the ...
It is hotter and drier in El Paso — the numbers back it up. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released new climate data this month that shows much of Southwest, including El Paso, dried ...
El Paso Electric’s goal of building a natural gas power plant on the city’s Northeast side is facing several hurdles that could delay or even derail the project. The proposed facility, called Newman 6, would ...
A few reminders of February’s cold snap stand sentry around El Paso — palm trees with brittle, brown fronds rattling in the springtime winds, some with new leaves peeking through. Area master gardeners and tree ...
Danielle Prokop is the newest member of the El Paso Matters team, focusing on the environment and the impacts of climate change on the Paso del Norte region. “I’m excited to play a part in ...
El Paso is resuming curbside recycling service, suspended since Dec. 1, starting next week. But the re-start is being phased in, so some households won’t have recycling again until next month. The city’s Environmental Services ...
Climate change continued to reshape El Paso in 2020, with the Sun City recording its second-highest average annual temperature in records that date back to 1887. El Paso’s three hottest years on record have occurred ...
On Thanksgiving morning, while many El Pasoans were baking pies and prepping turkeys, Jesus “Chuy” Reyes was in the midst of a standoff at the American Canal Extension near Downtown El Paso, where construction workers ...
El Paso appears headed to one of its hottest years on record. If that happens, 2020 will join the four preceding years in that category. Through November, El Paso’s average temperature for the year has ...
UPDATE: El Paso’s high Tuesday was 100 and the low was 60. El Paso’s long, hot summer will finally break Tuesday night when a cold front sweeps through, sending temperatures plummeting more than 40 degrees ...
Last month was — by far — the hottest August in El Paso’s recorded weather history. The average temperature for this August is 88.3 degrees. The previous record was set last year, 87.6 degrees. Before ...
This story has been updated with final July numbers from the National Weather Service. July was El Paso’s hottest month in more than 130 years of weather records, the latest example of the impact of ...
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-evaluate whether El Paso is violating clean air standards, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled. The decision stems from a federal lawsuit that challenged the EPA’s designation ...
El Paso’s average temperature last month was 79.5 degrees, tying for the second-hottest May on record. The only hotter May came in 1996, when the average temperature was 80.1. May 2018 also had an average ...
El Paso’s weather in 2019 will mostly be remembered for heat because it was the seventh-hottest year in more than 130 years of records. But one oddity went almost unnoticed. El Paso had 1.73 inches ...
El Paso had 47 days above 100 degrees last year, all between June and August. That’s the fourth-highest number of triple-digit days since 1900. Four of the six years with the most 100-degree days in ...
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By Sam Silerio The only electric utility in our city, El Paso Electric (EPE), is now owned by a multibillion-dollar investment fund managed by JPMorgan Chase. By definition, EPE is a monopoly. It also is ...