Connecticut got back 92% of the bottles and cans its residents paid deposits on in 2025 — up from 65% in 2024 and just 44% in 2023 — the sharpest gain recorded in any of the ten states that run container-deposit programs, according to new state-by-state data from the Container Recycling Institute, a nonprofit that tracks and advocates for deposit systems, reported by Waste Dive on Aug. 5.
The Texas House Committee on State Affairs will take public testimony Wednesday, Aug. 19, on the two biggest fights on the state’s grid — data centers and the proposed 765,000-volt transmission lines — according to the hearing notice posted on the Legislature’s schedule.
Texas families are days away from their first look at how every public school and district in the state performed this past year.
The chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has called his fellow commissioners and the state's grid operator into a special open meeting this Friday, Aug. 14, to talk through the policy questions hanging over the Permian Basin power-line buildout — while promising that no final decision on the Howard-Solstice line, the biggest piece of that buildout, will be made in the room.
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards spent the first hour and more of its quarterly meeting Thursday listening.
Health insurers selling individual coverage on the Affordable Care Act marketplace are asking for a median premium increase of 15% for 2027, according to a Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker analysis updated August 3 that now covers proposed filings from 276 insurers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The El Paso City Council voted 5-3 on Tuesday to advance the highest property tax rate the city can adopt without asking voters — a move that would raise the city tax bill on an average-value home by about $132 a year, according to reporting by El Paso Matters.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Programs of Study Advisory Committee spent most of Wednesday afternoon on a question that sounds like housekeeping and is not: who gets to sit in the rooms where Texas decides what a community-college career program teaches.
Texas has stopped telling data centers whether they can plug into the state's power grid, and no one has said when it will start again.
The U.S. tally of confirmed New World screwworm infestations rose to 45 with a domestic sheep in Terrell County confirmed August 5, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed-detections dashboard.