While the tech billionaire slashes jobs and services, local food banks, veterans’ health care and college students all suffer.
Misnamed commission oversees the state’s vast oil and gas industry. Critics say it’s all a smoke screen.
From hurricanes to wildfires to droughts, every region of Texas is threatened by man-made climate change, vulnerability index shows.
For one West Texas rancher, the orphaned wells have become both a mission and an existential threat.
As legal efforts fall short, residents are pursuing a novel strategy to halt the building of export terminals on unspoiled wetlands: Lobby Europeans to reject gas from the U.S.
Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
Culture wars rage as school board puts $93,000 in new library books in storage and bans titles by Judy Blume and Dr. Seuss.
Critics say Railroad Commission and politicians focus on business, not environmental protection.
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.
Environmental groups fault the Railroad Commission for lax oversight, warn of health impacts.
Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.
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.
The state faces devastating effects from climate change but voted against taking action.
Voter suppression blocks calls by Texans of color for regulation and climate action.
In two years, the company secured millions in bonds, three pipelines, five lawsuits and a lien.
Plans to dredge a fragile Gulf Coast estuary and Superfund site are being ‘fast-tracked’ in a rush to export Permian oil to Europe
Trump’s legal assault on Obamacare could mobilize large numbers of Latino voters against him in Florida and Texas.