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Dymond Black sits with a towel over his head in the shade on June 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Emergency Room Visits and 911 Calls for Heat Illness Spike During Texas Heat Wave

By Martha Pskowski, Gina Jiménez
An aerial view of the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Made the Texas Heat Wave More Intense. Renewables Softened the Blow

By Kristoffer Tigue
A person rests in the shade on a playground set in the Hungry Hill neighborhood on June 20, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Extreme temperatures across the state have prompted the National Weather Service to issue excessive heat warnings and heat advisories that affect more than 40 million people. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave

By Dylan Baddour
The canal expansion project will enable the world’s largest oil tankers to dock at Max Midstream’s Seahawk oil terminal, pictured on June 7, 2023, across Lavaca Bay from a jetty in Port Lavaca. Credit: Dylan Baddour / Inside Climate News

Determined to Forge Ahead With Canal Expansion, Army Corps Unveils Testing Plan for Contaminants in Matagorda Bay in Texas

By Dylan Baddour
Olga Thomas and other residents of Hueco Tanks rely on a private company to haul water to their neighborhood. Now she can count on her hydro panels for drinking water. Credit: Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times

This Texas Community Has Waited Decades for Running Water. Could Hydro-Panels Help?

By Martha Pskowski
In a 2018 file photo, workers in Midland, Texas, extracting oil from oil wells in the Permian Basin. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.

Operator Error Caused 400,000-Gallon Crude Oil Spill Outside Midland, Texas

By Martha Pskowski
A new fracking rig operates behind a house Feb. 10, 2016 in an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma neighborhood. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images

North Texas Suburb Approves New Fracking Zone Near Homes and Schools

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski
A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski
An overhead view of an explosion at a Shell USA Inc. facility on May 5, 2023 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix/The Texas Tribune

Shell Refinery Unit Had History of Malfunctions Before Fire

By Dylan Baddour
Sunrise El Paso members gather on July 25, 2022 outside El Paso City Hall after delivering 39,000 signatures to the city clerk in support of adding the climate charter to the ballot. Credit: Martha Pskowski

Climate Resolution Voted Down in El Paso After Fossil Fuel Interests and Other Opponents Pour More Than $1 Million into Opposition

By Martha Pskowski
Sunrise El Paso members attend a city council meeting on August 2, 2022. The council discussed the verification process for the signatures the organization collected in favor of adding the climate charter to the ballot. Credit: Martha Pskowski

Ambitious Climate Proposition Faces Fossil Fuel Backlash in El Paso

By Martha Pskowski
Concrete batch plants in Gunter, Texas on March 21, 2023. Credit: Shelby Tauber

Senator’s Bill Would Fine Texans for Multiple Environmental Complaints That Don’t Lead to Enforcement

By Alejandra Martinez, Texas Tribune, and Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
A stock pond south of Dallas dries up due to drought conditions. Across Texas, drought is taxing reservoirs and rivers and groundwater aquifers are being pumped faster than they can recharge. Currently, more than half the state is in drought. Credit: Paul Buck/AFP via Getty Images.

Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth

By Martha Pskowski
Ranchers round up black angus cattle on the Lone Star Wind Farm on June 9, 2007, near Abilene, Texas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas. So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It?

By Kristoffer Tigue
Ed Puckett helps operate Toyah's water treatment plant on a volunteer basis. During a tour of the plant in early February, he maintained that the water is safe to drink. Credit: Mitch Borden/Marfa Public Radio

How State Regulators Allowed a Fading West Texas Town to Go Over Four Years Without Safe Drinking Water

By Martha Pskowski
David Shifflett, a farmer in Reeves County, parses records of his protests to the Texas Railroad Commission against permits for nearby wastewater injection wells.

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune  
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth (R) speaks with S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on March 6, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

At CERAWeek, Big Oil Executives Call for ‘Energy Security’ and Longevity for Fossil Fuels

By Nicholas Kusnetz
An Engie employee looks out toward the wind turbines during a tour for the dedication of the Limestone Wind Project in Dawson, Texas, on Feb. 28, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California

By Dan Gearino

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