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Who Stands Between Texas and a Fascist Railroad Commission?
This man here—and a plurality of voters if he can find them
Candice Bernd
Candice Bernd is a special investigative correspondent for the Observer covering climate justice and grassroots movements. She is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, and Earth Island Journal. She is the author of Blood, Soil, and Oil: Far-Right Acceleration in the Age of Climate Crisis.
Articles by Candice Bernd
Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds
The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret.
Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
Data Center Boom Exposes GOP Faultlines over Local Control
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
Bo French’s Blood-and-Oil Bid for Railroad Commissioner
The former Tarrant County GOP chair’s statewide campaign displaces blame for the fossil fuel industry’s ravages onto the far right’s favored scapegoats.
As License Plate Readers Expand in Texas, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back
The Kyle City Council voted to apply for more state grant money for Flock Safety cameras despite a string of local-level contract cancellations of the booming surveillance company’s services.
Climate Activists Confront Iran War Profiteering at Big Oil Confab in Houston
Meanwhile, the U.S. energy secretary tries to soothe an anxious American oil industry, urging them to ramp up production amid shock to global markets.
Why Houston Oil Majors Are Hesitant to Go All In on Venezuela
Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to leap at Trump’s invitation to join his war on the climate and the international legal order.
Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover
State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.
Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.
Republican lawmakers have for years refused to engage with precautionary climate-resilience and disaster-response measures.