Battery storage expands in Texas as power grid struggles with record heat
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As Federal Money Flows to Carbon Capture and Storage, Texas Bets on an Undersea Bonanza
Over the last century, the state of Texas has reaped billions of dollars by allowing companies to burrow into the ...
Summer of Record Heat Deals Costly Damage to Texas Water Systems
The hottest summer on record for many Texas cities has brought millions of dollars in damage to municipal plumbing and ...
Texas Permits Lignite Mine Expansion Despite Water Worries
Texas regulators on Tuesday approved a 12,000-acre coal mine expansion despite objections from local governments and a river authority concerned ...
Death toll in stifling Texas prisons climbs, Democrats seek investigation
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A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It
Three years ago, North Dumas Farms was an empty field near the northern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Today it ...
Standards Still Murky for Disposing Oilfield Wastewater in Texas Rivers
State of Denial: Second in a series about Texas’ environmental regulators. When a team of researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus ...
Flush With the Promise of Tax Credits, Clean Energy Projects Are Booming in Texas
In the city of Mesquite, Texas, 10 miles east of downtown Dallas, one of the area’s largest manufacturing spaces is ...
Dry Springs in Central Texas Warn of Water Shortage Ahead
Almost every other day, Charlie Flatten gets a call about another local water well gone dry. Last week, he tried ...
Texas’ Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated
This is part of Drifting Toward Disaster, a Texas Observer series about life-changing challenges facing Texans and their rivers. One January day in ...
