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.
Texas lists 795,000 people on its Central Abuse Registry, and the agency that maintains it told a House committee Sept. 9 that it wants to stop issuing one of the findings that decides who goes on 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.
Texas animal health officials have imposed movement restrictions on parts of two Big Bend counties after screwworm was found in a horse near the Rio Grande — the first horse infested since the flesh-eating parasite returned to the United States in June.
A Dallas child care center that recently changed hands can start chasing higher state payments almost two months earlier than the rules allow, after Texas workforce commissioners voted Sept. 8 to set aside two of their own eligibility requirements for its new owner.
Harris County commissioners voted Sept. 8 to advance a property tax rate for the coming year that sits at the exact ceiling state law allows them to set without holding an election, and the county’s own notice says the owner of a median-valued home would pay $86 more because of it.
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.
Correction, Sept. 11, 2026.
Nineteen Texas school districts serving 60,697 students were rated "substandard achievement" on the state's annual financial report card this year, and ten of them let the deadline to challenge that rating pass without filing anything, according to the Texas Education Agency's public ratings database, checked Sept. 8.