Coverage of what Texas growth runs on -- the ERCOT grid and new generation, transmission lines, data centers and the demand they bring, and the water supply, reservoirs and groundwater a growing state depends on.
Corpus Christi voters on Nov. 3 approved a charter amendment that ends the city's practice of exempting its biggest industrial water users from drought surcharges, according to the Nueces County elections office's unofficial count.
Treated oilfield wastewater can be spread across Texas farmland under rules the state’s environmental regulators adopted Nov. 4 — and on the question a neighbor is most likely to ask, how close it may come to a drinking water well, the rule gives two answers that do not match.
Texas environmental regulators will decide Sept. 9 whether to let Corpus Christi keep water in its reservoirs that it would otherwise have to send downstream to Nueces Bay.
The governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller and speaker of the Texas House meet Sept. 8 as the state's bond review board to take up a water bond sale capped at $2.2 billion — the money behind the next round of projects in the state water plan.
The Railroad Commission of Texas on Sept. 3 released preliminary oil and natural gas production statistics for June 2026, reporting statewide crude oil output of 119,505,477 barrels and natural gas production of 1,049,291,028 thousand cubic feet.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas is set to vote Sept. 11 on the permanent rule for connecting the state's largest new electricity users to the grid.
A spring on Ryan White's ranch in the Pecos River basin flowed 1,200 gallons a minute until 2014.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Sept. 1 that it has elevated the invasive zebra mussel status of Fort Phantom Hill Lake, near Abilene, to fully infested.
Texas sent water-use surveys to 341 data centers this year.
By Charles Blain Don’t mess with Texas, a phrase as widely known as the state’s identity itself also captures a useful rule for policymakers: Don’t mess with what works.
Oncor and the Lower Colorado River Authority's transmission arm filed an 81-page rebuttal Sept. 2 asking Texas utility regulators to overrule two administrative judges who recommended denying a pair of 765,000-volt power lines across Central and West Texas, arguing the judges leaned on "lay witness testimony" over the state grid operator's engineering and that denying the lines would leave Far West Texas facing forced outages of more than 2,000 megawatts.
The Railroad Commission of Texas announced Aug. 31 that David Lindley has been named the new director of the agency's Oil and Gas Division, the arm of the commission that oversees exploration and production activity across the state.
Three data center companies told a Senate committee Sept. 1 that they cool without fresh water and will pay for rural pipelines.
A customer of AEP Texas living in the brush country west of San Antonio could get a phone call three days before a windy afternoon warning that the lights may go out on purpose, then a second notice at 48 hours, a third at 24, and a final one somewhere between one and six hours before the power is cut.