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 meets Friday for a single piece of business: approving the budget request it sends the Legislature for 2028 and 2029.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas meets Friday on five applications to build the first 765-kilovolt power lines in Texas history, and its chairman has already said the commission will decide none of them.
Texas oil and gas wells surface roughly 24 million barrels of salty water every day — more than a billion gallons — and the state's plan to turn that waste stream into a water supply now hinges on rules still being written and a jurisdictional boundary two agencies admit they cannot locate.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that EdgeConneX and Stream Data Centers will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that Oracle will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to take the first step toward a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers in the city, Mayor Mattie Parker said in a statement issued after the vote.
The commission that decides whose radioactive waste may be buried in West Texas meets Thursday with 20 import applications in front of it — from a Michigan reactor, two Minnesota plants, an Army munitions contractor and more than a dozen others.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 10 that OpenAI will comply with the statewide standards and guidelines he established for data centers, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham announced Aug. 10 that the Texas General Land Office and the Railroad Commission of Texas have plugged 42 orphaned wells on state-owned submerged land, including 16 wells off High Island in Jefferson County, as part of the agencies' ongoing statewide Coastal Protection Project, according to a news release from the GLO.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 10 that Meta will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas, according to a news release from the governor's office.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality votes Wednesday on whether to propose a rule that would stop companies with poor compliance records from slipping back into the state's simplest water pollution permits through an automated approval.
State Representative Drew Darby asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Monday to hold a public meeting in Tom Green County before the agency acts on four air quality permit applications tied to a proposed data center campus near Dove Creek.