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.
An Arizona company said Sept. 10 it will build what it calls the first end-to-end recycling plant for retired solar panels in the United States, on a 10-acre site near Dallas, and that it expects to start running it in the third quarter of 2027.
The Railroad Commission of Texas issued 695 original drilling permits in August 2026, with the Midland district accounting for nearly half of all permits to drill new oil and gas holes, the agency reported in a Sept. 9 news release.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas announced the launch of ERCOT PowerCast, a monthly podcast built to walk listeners through the topics, decisions and people shaping the state’s electric grid.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has opened the application period for a program offering more than $100 million to permanently plug and abandon marginal conventional oil and gas wells across the state.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will vote Sept. 11 on a rule that would make a data center put up $50,000 for every megawatt it wants from the grid before anyone studies whether the grid can carry it.
The chairman of the agency that regulates Texas utilities wants two of the state's biggest proposed power lines sent back to the judges who just recommended rejecting them — a step that would keep the projects alive but push a decision months further out for landowners across 23 counties.
Nearly half of Texas voters say it is “extremely important” for the state to prioritize water projects, according to new polling released Sept. 8 by Texas 2036, a nonpartisan policy organization.The group said 49 percent of voters gave the issue that highest rating and another 30 percent called it “very important,” putting the combined share at 79 percent.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s executive director signed an emergency order on Aug. 25 letting Corpus Christi stop sending fresh water downstream to Nueces Bay.
The Texas Water Development Board will decide Sept. 10 whether to spend $69.5 million lining and piping irrigation canals in the Rio Grande Valley, the state's half of a $164 million package assembled with a bank the United States and Mexico own together.
The Texas House Committee on Energy Resources will gavel in at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 14 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 to take public and invited testimony on three interim charges that between them cover almost everything the oil patch puts back underground: carbon dioxide, produced water and the disposal wells blamed for West Texas earthquakes.
The Texas House Committee on Energy Resources will gavel in at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 15 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 for the second of two consecutive interim hearings, opening with an oversight review of the Railroad Commission of Texas that the committee's chairman has already told one commissioner he expects him to answer for on the record.
A rancher who is representing himself in one of the biggest transmission cases in Texas history told state utility regulators on Sept. 5 that if they approve two enormous power lines over their own judges' recommendation, landowners will take them to court.