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 agencies that run the Texas power grid have told Governor Greg Abbott they need new legal authority to keep the state's data-center boom from raising electric bills and threatening reliability — and, in one recommendation, to stop a hostile foreign government from using a data center to disrupt the grid.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening four new paddling trails in the coastal community of Palacios, a launch that marks the 100th trail added to the Texas Paddling Trails program.
The Railroad Commission of Texas drew more than 1,100 attendees and over 60 exhibitors to its 2026 Regulatory Conference, setting a new attendance record for the agency’s premier annual educational event.
The public comment period on proposed groundwater decline targets for a management area spanning North and Central Texas closes Wednesday, ending a three-month window on figures that will govern pumping permits from Tarrant County to the Hill Country.
The two utilities seeking permission to build a 370-mile power line from San Antonio to the Permian Basin asked the judges hearing the case on Monday to reject a landowner coalition's bid to consider new evidence after the hearing ended.
A Hill Country landowner group is asking the judges weighing a 370-mile power line to consider new evidence before they recommend where it should run — a recommendation expected within weeks.
Texas regulators have imposed the first hard operating requirement on the data centers crowding onto the state grid, and the industry is weighing whether to fight it in court.
Upshur County commissioners voted July 15 to join a proposed 16-county groundwater conservation district in East Texas, advancing a regional effort to regulate the large wells that Dallas-area planners and private investors want to drill over the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer.
Governor Greg Abbott's deadline for regulators to spell out how they will keep data-center costs off Texans' electric bills arrives Friday, but the state's push to rein in the industry is running into a problem it cannot regulate away: the calendar.
Texans for Responsible Infrastructure Investment announced that three local economic development organizations — the Copperas Cove Economic Development Corporation, Forward Wichita Falls and the Sherman Economic Development Corporation — have joined the statewide coalition advocating for major electric transmission investments, according to a July 14 news release.
Texas utility regulators have two days to answer the governor.
The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District board will meet Thursday to consider adopting new groundwater rules that would cap pumping from the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, days after companies tied to Dallas investor Kyle Bass sued the district in federal court over its permitting moratorium.