Biden’s Climate Plan Brings Billions to Texas
Mining and manufacturing have boomed under President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), leading to billions of dollars’ worth of investments. Republican states,...
Abandoned Oil Wells May Cost Texas Taxpayers $117B
About 783,000 unplugged oil wells across Texas have been abandoned by their owners, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker, a nonprofit think...
Texas Pipeline Crew Rescues Giant Alligator
An enormous alligator got stuck in a concrete drainage earlier this month, luckily a crew of pipeline workers found it and rescue him before...
Oil Industry Outlook Still Grim — Especially in Texas
Texas has been hit especially hard by the economic downturn since the start of the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a catastrophic drop in oil...
Texas Coast Braces for Possible Category 3 Hurricane
More than 70 members with the Texas Army, Air National Guard, and Texas State Guard with the Texas Military Department have been activated and...
More than half of Texas beaches had unsafe levels of bacteria in 2017
A report released in late August by Environment Texas and Frontier Group found that 75 of the 120 beaches in Texas they tested “were unsafe for swimming on at least one day during 2017” due to bacterial contamination.
Hundreds of Animals Rescued in Wake of Central Texas Floods
In the aftermath of the catastrophic July 4 floods that swept through Kerrville and surrounding areas, animal...
Willie Nelson, Paul Simon Not Enough to Stop Kinder Morgan Hill Country Pipeline
Kinder Morgan is moving toward completion of a pipeline through the heart of the Texas Hill Country, despite multiple legal challenges, opposition from landowners...
Chinese Wind Farm in Texas May Threaten National Security, Environment
The tense trade duel between the world’s two superpower economies is being felt everywhere. The United States was the latest to move a pawn...
Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires Now in Texas
Editor’s Note: This is a follow up to a previous story about fire danger in Texas.
Thousands of fires have charred and scarred the state...
