Since 1954
Proposed projects are driven by sketchy numbers nobody has to prove: inflated demand, water use most companies never report, power plans that route around ordinary review. Either way, the public pays.
Records show how LNG special interests have shaped city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.
Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom.
The booming city's transit predicament is not unique; it is a local expression of a statewide structural problem.
If left intact, the exemption for oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico could forever harm vulnerable species and their habitats.
Cities, towns, and industrial complexes aim to quickly pump tens of millions of gallons per day in a bid to avert disaster.
When drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecast.
Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum.
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.
The governor’s office said the city’s two main reservoirs could dry up by May, much sooner than previous timelines. But authorities still offer no plan for curtailment of water use.