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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

By Kiley Price

Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

By Martha Pskowski

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna

South Texas Officials Didn’t Know Tesla Was Discharging Lithium Refinery Wastewater Into Local Ditch

By Arcelia Martin

Corpus Christi Cuts Timeline to Disaster as Abbott Issues Emergency Orders

By Dylan Baddour

Water Shortage May Hit Corpus Christi Within Weeks

By Dylan Baddour

A New Era of Data Center Development Is Like a Second Industrial Revolution

By Arcelia Martin

Trump Claims Indian Investment Will Make Long-Standing Plans for Brownsville Refinery a Reality

By Martha Pskowski

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe

By Dylan Baddour

Texas Seizes the Solar Crown From California, and Other Key Points From the Latest Electricity Data

By Dan Gearino

Razor Wire and Clearcutting at the Border Threaten Native Rio Grande Habitat

By Martha Pskowski

Tiny Texas School District Rejects Tax Deal with $6 Billion LNG Project

By Dylan Baddour

Dow Asks Texas to Legalize Plastic Pollution From Its Seadrift Complex

By Dylan Baddour

Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend

By Martha Pskowski

Texas Alleges ‘Habitual Non-Compliance’ of Wastewater Rules at Dow Chemical Complex 

By Dylan Baddour

Retired EV Batteries Scored a New Gig: Bolstering Texas’ Grid

By Arcelia Martin

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

By Arcelia Martin

‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous

Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain

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