Abbott Directs PUC to Improve Electric Reliability through Fossil Fuels
Last Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the Public Utility Commission urging them to take action towards the improvement of electric reliability...
How Can You Prepare For Texas’ Upcoming Cold Front?
With the upcoming cold front reaching Texas between late Saturday and early Sunday, extreme temperatures originating from the Arctic blast will impact the state...
Think Texas Summers are Hot Now? Just wait.
Everything isn’t just bigger in Texas — it is about to get a lot warmer, too. Droughts and urban flooding also are predicted to...
Poison in the Air
by Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller, photography by Kathleen Flynn for ProPublicaProPublica is a...
A Majority of Texans Still Have no Plans to Own an Electric Vehicle
Drive around Houston and it may seem like half the city has a Tesla. Still, electric vehicles are rare in Texas and likely to...
TCEQ’s inaction will make Texas hotter
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is doing very little and working slowly at what little they do. Pollution output is on the...
Texas Needs to Tackle Water Scarcity Before It Gets Worse
Texas is no stranger to water scarcity. In every decade of the twentieth century, Texas has experienced a serious drought. However, Texas’ ability to...
Rare and Endangered Whooping Cranes Return to the Texas Coast
The tallest bird in America, the rare and endangered whooping crane, is returning to the Texas coast, as they do every year from November...
Hurricane Hanna Leaves a Mark on South Texas
Across South Texas, boats were destroyed, power lines came down and streets were flooded as Hanna blew through with 85-mile-per-hour winds.
In Corpus Christi, three...
Cooling Stations, Air Conditioners Available to Help Texans in Need Beat Heat
Reliant, the Salvation Army and cities in Texas are working to provide heat relief for Texans this summer. Together, they have opened 13 cooling...
