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On Friday, Judge Bill Harris of Lamar County heard arguments in a pre-trial hearing about the Keystone XL pipline’s use of eminent domain in North Texas. On one side of the court was Julia Trigg Crawford and her attorney. Crawford owns a farm north of Paris, and the pipeline would cross a portion of her […]
You wouldn’t know it from much of the coverage out there, but a “victory” for Texas in its ongoing conflict with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday is something of a moot point. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a 2-1 ruling yesterday saying that the EPA hadn’t properly rejected the state’s ‘Flexible Permitting […]
Why is the state filing so many lawsuits against the federal agency that claims it’s just trying to protect us from breathing dirty air?
As drought grips parts of the country less accustomed to water shortages, folks here think they may have some lessons for other cities.
Why aren’t we building new power plants? The common answer to that is now being called into question.
There weren’t any real surprises in tonight’s Republican primary runoff for two of the seats on the Railroad Commission of Texas. That’s the state agency in charge of regulating the oil and gas industry in Texas. Incumbent chair Barry Smitherman won another turn at his seat after beating challenger Greg Parker. In the runoff for […]
Will Texas regulators be willing to police the hand that funds them?
Electric providers in Texas have to make a decision: should they pass on higher wholesale electricity costs to customers who’ve signed “fixed rate” contracts?
Two Texas politicians have introduced legislation to block several species of salamanders in Central Texas from being recognized as endangered or threatened species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) identified several salamanders (the Austin Blind, Georgetown, Jollyville Plateau and Salado Springs) as candidates to be listed as endangered or threatened species. Some of the […]
This week a judge made the order official, setting back construction on one of the few coal plants still being planned in Texas.
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