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 will not require data centers to measure how much electricity and water they use inside their buildings.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) reported statewide crude oil and natural gas production figures for July 2026, drawn from 154,978 oil wells and 82,624 gas wells, according to an Oct. 1 agency news release.
The South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER) hosted a luncheon in San Antonio honoring the winners of the annual Eagle Ford Excellence Awards, according to a Sept. 30 news release from the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA).
Senators spent more than six hours Sept. 30 asking who should control the cost of Texas' transmission buildout, with witnesses urging competitive bidding, a lower guaranteed return for utilities and relief for ratepayers before the 765-kV Permian Basin lines are built.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality opened applications Sept. 30 for the Texas Hydrogen Infrastructure, Vehicles, and Equipment Program, known as THIVE, making approximately $16 million in competitive grants available, according to a news release from the agency.
Railroad Commission of Texas Commissioner Wayne Christian applauded the Trump administration's finalization of new federal fuel economy standards that reverse requirements set under the Biden administration, according to a Sept. 29 news release from the agency.
The three members of the Texas Water Development Board meet Oct. 1 to decide whether to raise Kerr County's flood-warning grant to $6.85 million — more than five times what the county holds now, and about 14 percent of the $50 million the Legislature set aside for 30 counties.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas decides Oct. 1 whether to start writing a rule that would measure what a data center actually uses inside its own fence line, rather than at the single meter where the utility's wires end.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved the final discharge permit for the Harbor Island desalination plant on Sept. 23, two days before a Corpus Christi lawmaker told a Texas Tribune Festival audience that seawater desalination is a key issue for the next legislative session.
The Texas House Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 10 a.m. Mountain time Oct. 6 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center in El Paso to hear invited and public testimony on the Rio Grande Compact and oversight of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, followed by invited-only testimony on new water supply strategies, according to the official hearing notice.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 28 issued a statewide disaster proclamation allowing expanded use of dyed diesel on Texas roads, raising the allowable weight for certain loads and suspending Texas Low Emission Diesel (TxLED) rules to the extent the federal Environmental Protection Agency authorizes, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Railroad Commission of Texas Commissioner Wayne Christian is calling on Texas oil and gas producers, pipeline operators and other energy companies to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses, according to a Sept. 24 statement from the commissioner's office, following recent cyberattacks on Texas-bound energy tankers and federal warnings that foreign adversaries are targeting industrial control systems.