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Project 2025 Advisor Takes the Reins at EPA Region 6

By Martha Pskowski

‘Drill Baby Drill’: Texas City Approves New Site for Fracking Near Daycare and Schools

By Dylan Baddour

Corpus Christi Launches Emergency Water Projects as Reservoirs Dwindle and Industrial Demand Grows

By Dylan Baddour

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

$An aerial view of produced water ponds, used to treat and recycle wastewater from fracking, in Lenorah, Texas. Credit: Julian Mancha for The Texas Tribune/Inside Climate$

Texas Regulators Finalize Oilfield Waste Rule

By Martha Pskowski

Sandra Edwards, who lives in Houston’s Fifth Ward, is still trying to recover from Hurricane Beryl, which badly damaged her home last July. “The government doesn’t care about us,” she says. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters

By Jana Cholakovska, Public Health Watch

Another Polar Vortex Is Blasting the U.S. With Harsh Winter Weather. So How Is Climate Change Involved?

By Kristoffer Tigue

What to Expect from State Governments on Renewable Energy Policy in 2025

By Dan Gearino

Border Agency Seeks Solutions With Mexico on Water, Sewage Problems

By Martha Pskowski

The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A Shrimper’s Crusade Pays Big Dividends on a Remote Stretch of Texas Coastline

By Dylan Baddour

The Sunbelt’s Growing Population Faces Increasing Climate Hazards

By Wyatt Myskow

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution facility in the southeastern corner of Channelview, Texas. Credit: Jeffersonn Castellanos/Univision45

Levels of Cancer-Causing Benzene Reached New Heights in Beleaguered Channelview. Regulators Never Told Residents

By Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch

Texas Regulators Report More Than 250 New Cases of Groundwater Contamination

By Martha Pskowski

A view of the ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas. Credit: Mark Felix for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Federal Appeals Court Upholds $14.25 Million Fine Against Exxon for Pollution in Texas

By Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune

In Houston, a City Council Member Questions ‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic and a City Collaboration with ExxonMobil

By James Bruggers

An oil pumpjack is seen near a field of wind turbines in Nolan, Texas. One of the new grants will support a clean energy reporter in Texas, making ICN’s Texas bureau its largest. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

With $800,000 in New Grants, Inside Climate News to Expand Local Environmental Journalism

By ICN Editors

Oil and Gas Waste ‘Oiled’ the Feathers of White Pelicans in Texas’ Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

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