Following watchdog’s advice, senators shrink tax giveaway program for oil and gas.
The state’s largest fossil fuel companies won a new loophole big enough for a liquified natural gas plant.
Petroleum industry supports tax breaks for renewable energy projects but legislators refuse.
An effort to resurrect Texas’ Chapter 313 tax abatement is underway in the Legislature.
In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.