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 has drawn more than $140 billion in capital commitments across four major artificial intelligence and infrastructure projects, making the state the industrial backbone of American AI, according to a new economic report released this month by Build American AI, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that advocates for U.S. leadership in emerging technologies.
The Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, to hear from the state's three major natural-resource agencies and take invited and public testimony on two interim charges — the rollout of last session's produced-water and oilfield-waste laws, and the state's defenses against catastrophic wildfire.
The Texas Oil and Gas Association published its July 2026 Month in Review on Aug. 3, a roundup the association said shows how TXOGA continued advocating for the Texas oil and natural gas industry over the past month.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Wednesday morning for a briefing session with nothing on it to vote on.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process — and to finish the audit before any additional data center is approved to move forward.
Texas' two top presiding officers have lined up behind a Senate committee chairman's call for state regulators to reject pending applications for the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines ever proposed in Texas, and the House will take up the issue at its own hearing in three weeks — a rapid escalation that leaves one of the largest infrastructure projects in state history facing resistance from multiple corners of the Capitol.
The organization that polices reliability standards on the ERCOT grid grades its own metrics on a traffic-light system.
This week, the expansion of artificial intelligence data centers emerged as the single most urgent policy challenge before the Texas Legislature.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a settlement that vacates the federal government's listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species, ending a rule his office said threatened Texas's oil and gas industry, the agency announced July 29.
AMERMIN, an Austin-based recycler and refiner of critical minerals, is renewing its call for federal export licensing on mill-ready tungsten scrap, warning in a July 29 news release that high-value material is leaving the country for overseas remanufacturing even as tungsten prices sit near record highs.
Texas is moving to string a new backbone of ultra-high-voltage power lines across the state — and on Wednesday the people whose land sits in the path came to the Capitol in numbers rarely seen for an interim hearing.
The state agencies that keep the lights on told a Senate panel Wednesday that Texas is planning for a grid nearly double the size of today’s — and that the surge is being driven by an unfamiliar customer: the data center.