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.
The Texas Water Development Board is urging Texans to adopt water-wise habits at home as a persistent heat dome and expanding drought push water demand higher across the state.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge covering the Pecos River Basin: falling flows, the interstate compact that governs them, the 1930s special district that stores the water, and the treated oilfield wastewater that companies want to put into the river.
The Texas General Land Office has approved $9,500,000 in disaster recovery funds for a wastewater collection system improvement project in the city of Prairie View, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced in an Aug. 26 news release.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
For nearly 21 years, a Texan who registered to speak at a Railroad Commission open meeting was guaranteed a turn at the microphone.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will meet Aug. 28 to settle the route of a 370-mile power line from San Antonio to the Permian Basin, the first of three high-voltage paths the state approved out of the oil field to reach a decision.
On Sunday, Aug. 23, Texas homes and businesses drew 90,411 megawatts of electricity in a single hour — more than on any weekend day in the state’s history, and more than on any day ever recorded except one.
Texas environmental regulators have given Corpus Christi permission to stop releasing water from its two main reservoirs into Nueces Bay, an emergency order that took effect immediately and runs through Dec. 23.
Meta launched a marketing campaign built around firsthand accounts from residents and small business owners in Fort Worth, Temple and El Paso, according to an Aug. 25 announcement from the company.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge: how much water the state's data centers and other energy-intensive industries consume, and what Texas should require them to disclose.
Texas built a fund to buy water that does not exist yet.
The three commissioners who run the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will meet Aug. 26 with the air permit for a proposed ammonia plant at Ingleside as the first item on a 63-item agenda.