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.
Drought expanded across nearly eight percent of Texas in a single week, and the most severe category on the federal scale returned to the Panhandle after a five-week absence — even as the state's reservoirs, refilled by July flooding, remain about three-quarters full.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 14 that Amazon, Lancium and Cipher Digital will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 14 that Stack Infrastructure, Anthropic and Nightpeak Energy will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with Texas Tech University’s Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering to launch the RRC Field Inspector Training program, a new initiative aimed at strengthening the professional development of the commission’s oil and gas inspectors.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service on a new fire-prevention training program for its oil and gas field inspectors, the agency announced Aug. 3.
The Railroad Commission of Texas meets Tuesday to take up ExxonMobil's application to bury carbon dioxide beneath Jefferson County — the first big test of a permitting power the state took over from the federal government eight months ago.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has called a special meeting for Aug. 21 devoted entirely to two of the giant power lines proposed to carry electricity out of the Permian Basin, and has moved it out of its own hearing room to a hotel ballroom across town.
The Texas House Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at Weslaco City Hall to hear invited testimony on the state and regional water planning process, the project types eligible for the New Water Supply for Texas Fund, oversight of the Texas Water Development Board and implementation of a 2025 law on jointly operated water and sewer utilities.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Microsoft, Hut 8 and Equinix, along with Galaxy, Compass Datacenters and Montera Infrastructure, will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers, according to a pair of Aug. 13 news releases from the governor's office.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 12 that Core Scientific, Vantage Data Centers and SB Energy will comply with the statewide standards and guidelines he established for data center development, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 12 that Google, Rowan and CleanSpark will comply with the statewide standards and guidelines he established for data center development, according to a news release from the governor's office.
ERCOT, the agency that runs the power grid for most of Texas, told state regulators Monday that the audit of every data center waiting to plug into the grid will take several months — and asked permission to miss the deadlines its own rules set for sorting those projects.