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 state council that pays Texas farmers and ranchers to keep their land out of subdivisions meets Oct. 13 to rewrite how it scores grant applications, and written comments on that vote have to reach Texas Parks and Wildlife by 9 a.m. the morning of the meeting.
Taylor's City Council approved a development agreement Oct. 8 that sets the rules for a 664-acre data center and gas-power campus on the edge of town, just five days before the city's planning commission was scheduled to hold a public hearing on a new code for that kind of project.
Any company that wants to plug a data center or other very large power user into the Texas grid must now put down $100,000 for a study and post $50,000 for every megawatt it requests, under a Public Utility Commission rule that took effect Oct. 8.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the ninth Texas Energy Fund loan, for a natural gas power plant of more than 450 megawatts in Reeves County, according to an Oct. 7 news release from the governor’s office.
The Railroad Commission of Texas assessed $1,245,802 in enforcement docket fines against operators and businesses at the commissioners’ open meeting on Tuesday, the agency said in an Oct. 7 news release.
Neighbors of a biogas plant that would spray treated waste across 4,553 acres of Ellis County farmland won the right Oct. 7 to fight the permit in front of an independent judge.
Texas environmental regulators will decide Oct. 7 whether people living near a planned biogas plant in Ellis County get a formal hearing before the state lets it spray treated waste across 4,553 acres of farmland.
Taylor's city council will vote Oct. 8 on whether to annex about 664 acres east of town so a data center campus with its own gas-fired power plant can be built under city rules.
The Railroad Commission of Texas plugged 2,022 orphaned wells during fiscal year 2026, surpassing the Texas Legislature's performance measure by 300 wells, or 18.9 percent, according to a Sept. 30 news release from the agency.
The Railroad Commission of Texas will take up Oct. 6 whether the rate Energy Transfer charges to move gas on its new Permian-to-Dallas pipeline is reasonable.
When Hill County commissioners voted this spring to pause new data center construction for a year, they were testing a power Texas law does not clearly give them.
Texas will not require data centers to measure how much electricity and water they use inside their buildings.