Texas

Biden Administration Quietly Approves Huge Oil Export Project Despite Climate Rhetoric

The Sea Port Oil Terminal, 30 miles off the Texas coast, is the first of four proposed offshore terminals designed to dramatically expand the U.S. oil export capacity.

By Dylan Baddour

Texas Oil and Gas Agency Investigating 5.4 Magnitude Earthquake in West Texas, the Largest in Three Decades

By Erin Douglas, The Texas Tribune and Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News

Texas Activists Sit-In at DOT in Washington Over Offshore Oil Export Plans

By Dylan Baddour

Activists Are Suing Texas Over Its Plan to Expand Interstate 35, Saying the Project Is Bad for Environmental Justice and the Climate

By Camryn Garza, Kristoffer Tigue

Texas’ Environmental Regulators Need to Get Tougher on Polluters, Group of Lawmakers Says

By Erin Douglas and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune

For the Third Time, Black Residents in Corpus Christi’s Hillcrest Neighborhood File a Civil Rights Complaint to Fend Off Polluting Infrastructure

By Dylan Baddour

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour

Texas Is Now the Nation’s Biggest Emitter of Toxic Substances Into Streams, Rivers and Lakes

By Dylan Baddour

Laredo Confronts Drought and Water Shortage Without a Wealth of Options

By Dylan Baddour

Mexican Drought Spurs a South Texas Water Crisis

By Dylan Baddour

Mangrove Tree Offspring Travel Through Water Currents. How will Changing Ocean Densities Alter this Process?

By Hannah Loss

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents

By Aman Azhar

Texas’ Wildfire Risks, Amplified by Climate Change, Are Second Only to California’s

By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Texas Observer

Texas A&M Shut Down a Major Climate Change Modeling Center in February After a ‘Default’ by Its Chinese Partner

By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News and Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

How Greenhouse Gases Released by the Oil and Gas Industry Far Exceed What Regulators Think They Know 

By Laura Kraegel, Mollie Jamison and Aydali Campa

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

One Year Later: The Texas Freeze Revealed a Fragile Energy System and Inspired Lasting Misinformation

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: In the Year of the Electric Truck, Some Real Talk from Texas Auto Dealers

By Dan Gearino