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How BlackRock Became Texas’ Comeback Kid

Once a blacklisted ESG bogeyman, the Wall Street giant has won back the Republican rulers of Texas as it pours millions into data centers and the gas plants that power them.

by Candice Bernd

Keep Reading

Abandoned Oil Well Spreads Toxic Fumes, Dread Across San Antonio Subdivision

by Martha Pskowski

Did These North Texas Developers Have a Duty to Disclose Oil and Gas Waste History?

by Justin Nobel

1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?

by Saul Elbein

June 2016 feature May 31, 2016

Company Town

How big business turned a Gulf Coast beach town into an industrial zone.

by Naveena Sadasivam

Big Bend -- Pete Gallego and Will Hurd district May 10, 2016

Dozens Caught in Land Rights Fight Over Trans-Pecos Pipeline

by Naveena Sadasivam

State of Texas April 2016: Bottom of the Barrel, about oil prices and production Apr 05, 2016

State of Texas: Bottom of the Barrel

by Naveena Sadasivam

lon burnam Mar 02, 2016

Lon Burnam Missed the Railroad Runoff. What Happened?

The former Fort Worth Democrat had major newspaper endorsements, environmental groups’ support and outspent his opponents, only to lose by double-digits.

by Naveena Sadasivam

May 22, 2015

Q&A with Dawn Paley, Author of Drug War Capitalism

In new her book, Paley breaks from a tired narrative to connect U.S. policy, free trade and the devastating war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico.

by Melissa del Bosque

An oil field south of Odessa, TX. Aug 23, 2013

Sorting Fact from Fiction in the Fracking Water Debate

by Forrest Wilder

Anti-Federal Sentiment Dominates Discussion of Texas Oil and Gas Industry

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

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