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 board that oversees Texas's 216 local soil and water conservation districts opens its members' annual convention at 7 a.m. Sept. 28 with a vote on whether certain landowners may collect state water-quality money a second time.
Public Utility Commission of Texas Commissioner Courtney Hjaltman has been appointed to the Advisory Council to the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute, according to a Sept. 23 news release from the PUCT.
Farms, factories and city water systems that pump from the Edwards Aquifer must cut their withdrawals by 35 percent after the aquifer's key monitoring well dropped below 640 feet, six weeks after the region had climbed out of the same drought stage.
On Sept. 30, a Texas House select committee will take testimony on a question no Texas Legislature has formally studied: whether the state can absorb counties that currently belong to New Mexico.
David Thompson lives across the road from one of two data center campuses rising on San Antonio's far West Side, each with its own gas-fired power plant.
The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 30 in Capitol Extension room E1.012 to take invited and public testimony on the rising cost of building and paying for transmission lines, the rollout of the new Texas Cyber Command and how online platforms sell concert and event tickets.
Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian urged Texas oil and gas operators to report petroleum product and property theft, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), after testimony before a Senate committee highlighted the growing cost of oilfield crime.
Gov. Greg Abbott's Sept. 21 order halting state permits for data centers reaches a group his first pause left alone: projects that plan to build their own power plants instead of solely drawing from the grid.
Texas Oil & Gas Association President Todd Staples on Sept. 21 issued a statement opposing calls for a ban on diesel exports, warning that such a move would cost domestic jobs and create fuel shortages at home, according to a news release from the association.
Governor Greg Abbott on Sept. 21 directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt all permits sought by data centers until the Electric Reliability Council of Texas completes its audit of data center projects, according to a news release from the Governor's office.
The three members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will decide Sept. 23 whether people who objected to a seawater desalination plant at Port Aransas get a trial-like hearing, or whether the permit moves toward approval without one.
Texas lets a solar developer run a project for 20 years, and a wind developer for 10, before posting a dollar toward tearing it down.