Texas utility regulators approved the state’s first 765,000-volt transmission lines on Aug. 28, clearing Oncor to build 424 miles of them across 30 counties, from near Glen Rose to the New Mexico line, at a cost of about $3.9 billion — and in the same orders they threw out an administrative law judges’ finding that the utility had failed to give some landowners the notice the rules require.
Texas hospitals stopped earning roughly $27 million a day in extra Medicaid money on Sept. 1, the first day of the state's new fiscal year, because federal regulators have not signed off on three programs that pay hospitals, doctors and rural clinics the difference between what Medicaid pays and what care actually costs.
The agency that runs the electric grid for most of Texas told the market at 7:16 p.m. on Aug. 31 — the last hours of the day it had promised an answer — that it would not meet its own deadline for telling utilities which enormous new electricity customers make the first round of grid connections.
Under rules the Texas Education Agency proposed on Aug. 28, an open-enrollment charter school could require a child to attend school through a computer screen, and a school district could not.
Federal animal health officials lifted movement restrictions on livestock in part of New Mexico on Aug. 30, the first time any area of the United States has come out from under a screwworm control zone since the outbreak began in June.
Texas’ fish and wildlife agency has asked state environmental regulators not to give Corpus Christi more time than the city asked for before it must resume sending fresh water down to Nueces Bay, the nursery for the region’s shrimp and redfish.
A federal judge in Portland has upheld Oregon’s law requiring the companies that make packaging to pay for recycling it, the first time any court has tested such a law against the U.S. Constitution — and on Aug. 28 he entered judgment against the trade group that brought the case.
The Texas Workforce Commission spent the first hour of a House hearing Aug. 26 describing a child care program that serves 117,000 families.
When the public went looking for Texas cloud-seeding records after the July 2025 floods, the state agency that licenses cloud seeding did not have them.
The state's annual audit of local appraisal districts concluded that Texas school property is worth about $47 billion more than county appraisers said.