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Former University of Texas at Austin Professor Charles “Chip” Groat is ready to move on from a controversy about failing to disclose a conflict of interest while at the University. “I will leave this unpleasant episode behind me,” he wrote us in an email last week. Groat is retiring early from UT and moving to […]
Photo by Patrik Stollarz/Getty Images The latest forecast from the folks behind the Texas grid is out today, and it shows an improving situation for power in the state, while also noting that we still have a way to go, particularly in times of extreme temperature and emergencies. “The projected reserve margin for summer 2013 […]
One University of Texas at Austin professor has retired and another has resigned his position as head of UT’s Energy Institute, the school announced Thursday after the release of a scathing review of a study on fracking that has become mired in controversy. The man at the center of the storm for sitting on the […]
Two professors have resigned and retired in the wake of a controversial study on fracking that failed to disclose conflicts of interest.
A plan to dig an open pit coal mine near Eagle Pass will go before the Texas Railroad Commission.
Just a few weeks after pleading guilty to felony criminal charges and agreeing to a record settlement of $4.5 billion dollars for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has been “temporarily suspended” from new contracts with the federal government, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The spill was the […]
Yes, Midland is the second-weatlhiest metro area in the country (measuring personal income per capita in 2011), according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Over on the East Coast, though, that ranking raised some eyebrows. That’s where The Atlantic‘s Derek Thompson was at first surprised to see Midland ahead of Washington, DC […]
Update: Read about the Dec. 12 quake outside of Fort Worth here. Another small earthquake struck outside of Fort Worth last night according to the US Geological Survey. The quake was centered near Mansfield Texas, about 20 miles Southeast of Fort Worth. While it’s difficult to link any individual quake to a specific cause, North […]
Coal is on the decline in the United States. As a domestic drilling boom has opened up vast supplies of natural gas and coal has become more expensive to mine, coal power plants have become less and less viable. New environmental regulations that require coal plants to upgrade their equipment are also a factor. There […]
In the largest criminal penalty in history, BP will pay $4.5 billion to settle a federal case over the April, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The settlement will resolve numerous criminal claims against BP brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As part of the agreement, BP also agreed […]
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