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Jupiter Powers battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The Texas Power Grid Will Get a Boost from Batteries This Winter

By Arcelia Martin

Disaster survivors traveled to Washington, D.C., to call for a stronger federal disaster response system, not the much-reduced agency proposed by a Trump-appointed council. Credit: Ralph Alswang

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer

A battery storage facility in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Blue Jay solar and battery storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar

By Arcelia Martin

A view of the Valero Houston Refinery in Houston on Aug. 29. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State

By Lisa Sorg

Emergency crews respond to a pipeline fire in La Porte, Texas, on Sept. 17, 2024. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Greenpeace Scrutinizes the Environmental Record of the Company That Sued the Group

By Martha Pskowski

The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem

By Martha Pskowski, photos by Brenda Bazán

In 2021, Dr. Robert Bullard, from right, talks with Fifth Ward residents Water Mallett, Doris Brown, then-EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner during Regan's tour of Houston to highlight environmental justice concerns. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour

Jim Wright is one of three elected officials who lead the Railroad Commission of Texas. Credit: Jim Wright for Texas

A Rare Recusal by Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Up for Re-election

By Martha Pskowski

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

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

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