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 Public Utility Commission of Texas approved a plan to run a 180-megawatt data center directly off a Pecos County solar farm on Oct. 15, overruling the local wires utility, which had argued the grid study behind the deal was out of date and that the risk would land on its other customers.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) said Commissioner Wayne Christian on Thursday urged Texas lawmakers and regulators to fast-track a clear, efficient regulatory pathway for the industrial reuse of treated produced water, according to an Oct. 15 news release.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent letters to 156 data center developments across the state as part of an ongoing investigation into water use and compliance with Texas law, according to an Oct. 15 news release from his office.
Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) Commissioner Wayne Christian praised a federal announcement that the Trump administration will invoke the Defense Production Act to expand the Delek US Holdings Inc. refinery in Tyler, according to an Oct. 14 agency news release.
Bastrop County commissioners on Oct. 13 asked the state to hold a public meeting on a proposed natural gas power plant at Cedar Creek, using the one tool the county says it has: a request. The Commissioners Court approved a resolution presented by Precinct 3 Commissioner Mark Meuth.
Gov. Greg Abbott highlighted Texas’ energy leadership and economy during a fireside chat at the University Lands Energy Forum in Odessa, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the governor’s office.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas meets Oct. 15 on three applications to wire very large electricity customers straight into a single power plant, so that the plant's output is netted against what the customer draws.
Texas water utilities that never told their customers the pipe running into the house might be made of lead will start collecting violations by the end of October, the state’s environmental agency said Oct. 13 — and it does not know, or did not say, how many households were left in the dark.
Drought covers far less of Texas than it did a week earlier, but the water sitting in the state's reservoirs has still not caught up.
Cities and developers seeking permission to pipe treated sewage into a Texas creek may now hire their own consultants to run the computer model that decides how clean that water has to be, under a change the state’s environmental agency put into effect Oct. 13 — with no rule, no comment period and no written policy it has published.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) issued a total of 759 original drilling permits in September 2026, the agency said in an Oct. 12 news release.
The three-member board that finances most Texas water construction meets Oct. 14 for a work session at which, by the agenda's own terms, it will take no final action on anything.