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Meta Announces Large Solar Purchase Agreement in Texas, But It’s Powering Some Data Centers With Gas

The new solar project is less than half the size of a gas plant planned for Meta’s El Paso data center.

By Lauren Nutall

A Meta worker leads a tour of the company’s data center in Temple, Texas, on July 22. Credit: Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images
An aerial view of Meta’s El Paso data center. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center

By Martha Pskowski

A tug boat pushes barges through the Port of Corpus Christi on Aug. 22. Credit: Jon Shapley/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant

By Dylan Baddour

Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian speaks at an event in Houston on March 30, 2022. Credit: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Doubles Down and Defies State Legislature

By Martha Pskowski

A beach is seen adjacent to the Freeport LNG facility in Freeport, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

A Texas LNG Plant Pumps Out Chronic, Unpermitted Pollution, a Watchdog Finds

By Dylan Baddour

Texas State Rep. Jon Rosenthal speaks with supporters before a press conference in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2025. Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

Meet the Mechanical Engineer Running to Regulate the Texas Oil and Gas Industry

By Martha Pskowski

Maya Hart, one of millions of Southeast Texas residents who fled their homes during Hurricane Rita in September 2005, with the Galveston Bay behind her. Miles-long traffic jams, gas shortages and a humanitarian crisis cemented the Rita debacle as arguably the worst-executed mass evacuation in American history. Credit: Antranik Tavitian/Public Health Watch

Hurricanes Routinely Threaten the Texas Coast. But Mass Evacuations Pose Risks of Their Own.

By Elena Bruess, Public Health Watch

A data center site for sale off Loop 9 in Ellis County, Texas. Credit: Getty Images.

There’s No Comprehensive Mailing List for All Texas Data Center Operators

By Arcelia Martin

Sheep graze around solar panels in Saltillo, Texas, on May 28. Credit: Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images

These States Are Leading the Electricity Generation Boom

By Dan Gearino

The lower Nueces River at Calallen, Texas, on March 30. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns

By Dylan Baddour

A rendering of Pacifico Energy’s GW Ranch Energy Center in Pecos County, Texas. The power plant received the largest air pollution permit in the country this year. Credit: Courtesy of Pacifico Energy

Data Center Developers in Texas Plan Massive New Gas Power Projects

By Dylan Baddour

The construction site of a Meta data center in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 13. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

ERCOT Says Abbott’s Data Center Audit Will Be Done in December

By Arcelia Martin

A tanker moves past ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy’s new Golden Pass LNG export terminal in Port Arthur, Texas, on April 2. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

The Trump Administration Has Spent Billions Boosting Gas Exports, Spurring More Fracking

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Commissioner Wayne Christian (left) introduces a new public participation policy during the Railroad Commission of Texas meeting on Tuesday. Source: RRC Webcast

Texas Oil and Gas Regulators Will No Longer Have to Accept Public Comment at Open Meetings

By Martha Pskowski

State Sen. Charles Perry, a Republican from Lubbock, speaks on Aug. 10 at the ribbon cutting of a new produced water treatment facility in Orla, Texas. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Pressure Increases for Texas to Allow Treated Drilling Waste Into Rivers and Rangeland

By Martha Pskowski

Marathon Petroleum’s El Paso Refinery contributes to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

El Paso Officials Seek Answers Following Emissions at Marathon Refinery

By Martha Pskowski

Farmworkers weed a bell pepper field during a heat wave, in Camarillo, Calif., on July 3 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

As Temperatures Get Hotter, Pesticides Are More Dangerous to Farmworkers

By Amy Green

“The powerful industry [doesn’t] want people to recognize their power, and people are recognizing their power,” said Isabel Araiza, an organizer of the petition drive who spoke to the Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday. Source: City of Corpus Christi livestream

Corpus Christi Puts Industrial Water Charge on November Ballot

By Dylan Baddour

A Valero refinery is seen behind a residential area on May 5 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Corpus Christi Seeks to Block Referendum on Industrial Water Charge

By Dylan Baddour

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