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Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
A view of a battery storage complex and substation in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects

By Arcelia Martin

Deborah Linn lives near the construction site of a new McBride waste facility for oil and gas disposal in Elysian Fields, Texas. Credit: Shelby Tauber

Pitted Against Waste

By Martha Pskowski, Lise Olsen

Diesel-fueled generators sit between buildings at the Equinix Data Center in Ashburn, Va. Credit: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic

By Arcelia Martin

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

In Houston, solar panels run down the line to the next manufacturing process at Elin Energy's solar panel manufacturing facility. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Grid Increasingly Meets Growing Demand With Renewables

By Arcelia Martin

A construction worker ushers traffic on July 11, 2023, during a record-setting heat wave in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease

By Gina Jiménez, Public Health Watch

An electric substation is seen at a power plant in Houston. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas

By Arcelia Martin

Paul Westbrook shows a solar panel placed at the edge of his Fairview, Texas, property, to a tour group gathered for Sun Day — a day meant to commemorate the power of clean energy. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

This Texas Family Designed Their House Around the Solar Cycle Nearly 30 Years Ago

By Arcelia Martin

A prototype of a 3-D solar tower is seen at Janta Power’s Dallas office that is interconnected to the Texas grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

A Dallas Startup Raises $5.5 Million to Build 3-D Solar Towers

By Arcelia Martin

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company’s laboratory on Oct. 7. Credit: Sergio Flores/The Texas Tribune

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

In Houston, the LyondellBasell refinery, with the Houston skyline in the background. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’

By Dennis Pillion

A sphinx moth flies near the gates of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Bernardino, Mexico, on Sept. 21, 2022. Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators

By Tina Deines

In Houston, a transmission tower in July, as ERCOT, the state's power grid, urged customers to preserve electricity. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Grid Operators and Regulators Iron Out New Rules for Data Centers

By Arcelia Martin

Jackie Medcalf is looking at the camera with a serious expression, arms crossed. Behind her is the river.

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them.

By David Leffler

A view of Formosa Plastics’ Point Comfort complex, near the site of Exxon’s planned plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Exxon Steps Back From Texas Gulf Coast Plastics Plant

By Dylan Baddour

People try to stay cool on the sweltering streets of Manhattan as New York City experiences a heat wave on July 29. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office documented the scene of a workplace fatality at McBride Operating in Waskom, Texas, on the night of Feb. 6, 2024. Credit: Harrison County Sheriff’s Office

Embattled Texas Oilfield Waste Company Fined After Worker’s Death

By Martha Pskowski

Along Texas' Gulf coast, the oil and gas infrastructure in Corpus Christi. Credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble

By Dylan Baddour

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