Liveable Arlington

09/30/2026

📢 ⚡️ Data Centers Are Booming—But at What Cost ?

Texas is now ground zero for data centers powering AI and cloud computing, but our Barnett Shale communities are paying the price. Think: soaring energy use, water shortages, worsening air quality, and a new wave of fracking for methane gas—impacting our neighborhoods, schools, and health.
Data Center Boom: What Does It Mean for N. Texas and Beyond?
Join us for a crucial conversation:

🗓️ Event: Data Centers – The Threat of Uncontrolled Development
🎤 Speaker: Rita Beving
📅 Date: October 1, 6:30 PM
💻 Location: Zoom
🔗 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/DataCenter-LA

Don’t miss this chance to learn, ask questions, and stand up for a liveable Arlington. Tag a friend who should be there! 🌱

09/29/2026

We had such a wonderful time at the West Main Arts Festival! Thank you to
everyone who stopped by our community booth. We thoroughly enjoyed interacting with festival-goers, sharing information about our work, and connecting with neighbors and local supporters.
Thank you, Create Texas, for the shout-out and for supporting local artists and musicians!

09/21/2026

🌿 Thank You for an Incredible Day on Main Street! 🎨

A massive thank you to everyone who stopped by the Liveable Arlington booth during the 10th West Main Arts Festival last Saturday! We loved connecting with so many neighbors, sharing conversations, and hearing your thoughts on our community.

We also want to send an extra-special shoutout to our amazing volunteers—we couldn't do this work without your dedication, energy, and passion.

And finally, thank you to Mark Joeckel and the festival team for creating such a vibrant space for art, connection, and community. What a wonderful day! 💚

09/19/2026

Come visit the Liveable Arlington booth inside Wellspring on Main Main Art Festival, we have giveaways, information, fun temporary tattoos for the kiddos and adults. See you all at this fantastic Arlington event.

09/19/2026

🌿 Join Liveable Arlington at the 10th West Main Arts Festival! 🎨

We are thrilled to be a proud sponsor of this year’s festival! Come celebrate local art, community, and creativity with us.
📅 When: Today, September 19, from Noon to 6:00 PM
📍 Where: West Main Street — stop by and visit our booth at the Wellspring on Main Building!

A huge, heartfelt shoutout to Mark Joeckel, the incredible creator of this festival and a steadfast supporter of our mission for a healthier community.

Come say hello, learn more about our work, and enjoy an amazing day on Main Street. We can't wait to see you there! 💚

09/17/2026

⚠️Workover rig at Rolling Hills Drill Site, 395 East Lamar Boulevard in Arlington, Texas, close to Jones Elementary in Council District 1.

"Workover operations are to commence on or around September 3, 2026, and last until or around September 21, 2026" according to the city website.

➡️The Rolling Hills Drill Site is an active methane gas drilling pad belonging to UPP (United Production Partners LLC), a private oil and natural gas production company formed in 2019. UPP's operations are managed by EnerVest Operating, L.L.C. The site appears to have 15 active wells producing methane gas.

Location History: The drilling pad was formerly on the Rolling Hills Country Club golf course and is right next to the Roosevelt Arlington Commons Apartments.
The 30+ acres of the former country club are now being developed for 👀 Senior Living and townhomes, and commercial spaces. The senior living is the closest to the drill site.⚠️

Proximity to Schools🏫: the Rolling Hills drill site sits roughly 0.32 miles away from Jones, and less than a mile from Butler, Webb, Lamar, Turning Point schools.

Other Upcoming workover operations are planned at the following sites belonging to French company Total Energies.

➡️Palos Verdes Drill Site - 1157 SW Green Oaks Boulevard
Workover operations are to commence on or around September 28, 2026, and will take approximately 15 days to complete.

➡️Truman Drill Site - 310 North Collins Street
Workover operations are to commence around September 25, 2026, and will take approximately 5-10 days to complete.

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09/15/2026

📣Liveable Arlington invites you to a presentation

➡️Title: Data Centers - The Threat of Uncontrolled Development
➡️Date: October 1, at 6:30 PM via Zoom.
➡️Speaker: Rita Beving

Along with all its other impacts on communities, the data center boom is breathing a second life into the fracking for methane aka natural gas industry.

In frontline Barnett Shale communities like Arlington, the environmental, and health costs of fueling the data center boom will be felt everywhere - from our backyards to our schoolyards.

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/DataCenter-LA
Join us to learn more, and please share in your networks. Thank you!

09/01/2026

2026 Public Health Effects UPDATE of the 9th edition of the Fracking Science Compendium from CHPNY - a program of the The Science and Environmental Health Network is out.
See below

Fracking is STILL a health crisis. Especially for infants and children.

NEW: 2026 Public Health Effects UPDATE of our 9th edition fracking science Compendium.
https://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9th-ed-Public-Health-Effects-Update-2026_Final.pdf

In this report find you'll find additional original studies, reviews, and analyses adding evidence to previous findings, especially with regard to adverse birth impacts and childhood cancer.

These impacts may affect a child's entire life course and even survival.

The pollutants inherent to the fracking system include endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, and other toxins.

Our full Compendium uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not threaten human health directly or without imperiling climate stability upon which human health depends. As shown by this section Update, the second in a series, the research continues to affirm our conclusion.

https://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/9th-ed-Public-Health-Effects-Update-2026_Final.pdf

With Physicians for Social Responsibility
Photo: Liveable Arlington

08/28/2026

⚠️Ross Fire grows to one of the largest wildfires on record in North Texas

➡️Over three days the fire has grown to more than 80,000 acres in Palo Pinto and Jack counties and is 26% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

🏥😷Smoke from the Ross Fire has been moving east and southeast into parts of North Texas, creating orange, hazy skies and affecting air quality. People with respiratory conditions, children and older adults in areas where the smoke has drifted were advised to stay inside, according to the state’s environmental regulators.

Over three days the fire has grown to more than 80,000 acres in Palo Pinto and Jack counties and is 12% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. No injuries have been reported.

08/07/2026

📣Liveable Arlington Presents:

Now We Know: Exposure of Schoolchildren to Fracking in Arlington, Texas🏫
with Ranjana Bhandari
on Saturday, August 22, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM |
at the George W. Hawkes Downtown Arlington Library, Resilience Room

➡️Liveable Arlington recently released a new database with a complete inventory of every single drill site and gas well within 1/2-, 1-, and 2-miles of every single Arlington Public School campus.

➡️Join us to learn about the data and learn what it shows, the potential health impacts.
For instance, there are at least 3 active fracking sites within 2 miles of every single one of Arlington's 76 public school campuses.

➡️This is critical information for parents, school staff, administrators, and everyone who cares about the health and safety of Arlington children.

➡️The event is free and open to the public and is intended for a general audience. Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/NiWKMKQtwpQCRp5G7