Houston led the U.S. in new home construction in 2023, and that expansion has driven a heavy demand for concrete. The spinning drums of racing ready-mix trucks are a common sight along city ...

After living through years of construction on State Highway 170, Jean McTaggart thought the headaches were over for her far north Fort Worth neighborhood. That was until she heard about a proposed ...

Opposition to a concrete batch plant in the mountain community of Alto, New Mexico escalated earlier this month when dozens of its residents appealed to the state’s environment department to deny an ...

Activists are trying to rally residents of the Northline neighborhood to call for greater environmental protections at a public hearing over the reapproval of an environmental permit of a longstanding ...

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 ...