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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
Trucks line up on a residential street one block from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The residual waste was transported from Ohio to Texas. Credit: Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA Paused Waste Shipments From Ohio Train Derailment After Texas Uproar

By Dylan Baddour
Storage tanks stand in the evening sun at an LNG terminal in Sabine Pass, Texas, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Credit: Getty Images

After Explosion, Freeport LNG Rejoins the Gulf Coast Energy Export Boom

By Dylan Baddour, Delger Erdenesanaa
Nick Dornak, the president of the nonprofit group Friends of the Brazos River canoes the John Graves Scenic Riverway during a photo shoot with his 11-year-old daughter Emery. His father-in-law, Ed Lowe founded Friends of the Brazos and led the years long fight for legislation to protect this section of the river from industrial polluters. Credit: Meridith Kohut for The Texas Observer

Drifting Toward Disaster: Breaking the Brazos

By Kathryn Jones, Texas Observer

Texas Oilfield Waste Company Contributed $53,750 to Regulators Overseeing a Controversial Permit Application

By Martha Pskowski

Texas Regulators Won’t Stop an Oilfield Waste Dump Site Next to Wetlands, Streams and Wells

By Dylan Baddour
The Baytown Exxon gas refinery produces oil in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images

Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways

By Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski
A flare stack is pictured next to pump jacks and other oil and gas infrastructure on April 24, 2020 near Odessa, Texas. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’

By Martha Pskowski
In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour
Pipes with flow directions for operation with hydrogen can be seen on an engine for gas and hydrogen operation at Hansewerk's cogeneration plant in Hamburg-Othmarschen. Credit: Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images

Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water

By Dylan Baddour
Michael Bell explains his method of using taller plants to shade crops that require less light. Credit: Autumn Jones

The ‘Plant Daddy of Dallas’ Is Paving the Way for Clean, Profitable Urban Agriculture

By Autumn Jones
The Formosa Plastics plant sits near Matagorda Bay in Point Comfort, Texas on Nov. 3, 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws Approval of Plans to Dredge a Superfund Site on the Texas Gulf Coast for Oil Tanker Traffic

By Autumn Jones, Dylan Baddour

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