Texas Lawmakers have already filed more than 400 bills for the upcoming legislative session. Only a fraction of those will end up making it to a vote. But before the session begins, we thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at some environment and energy proposals. Lon Burnam is state representative from Fort […]
Chances may be better this time that the Texas legislature might strengthen regulation of oil and gas drilling
Drilling companies may be exempting as secret far more information on fracking chemicals than they agreed to.
The US Geological Survey recorded a small 2.6 magnitude earthquake east of Burleson,Texas earlier tonight.
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.
One of the few coal power plants still being planned in Texas is facing setbacks. The controversial White Stallion Energy Center in Matagorda County had been working with the Texas grid to examine how it will work once its completed, a process called a grid interconnection study. It’s a typical requirement for new power plants, along […]
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 […]
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their annual ‘World Energy Outlook,’ and it’s getting a lot of attention for its predictions that the U.S. will soon outpace Saudi Arabia as a producer of oil. That’s projected to happen by 2020, according to the report, thanks to a hydraulic fracturing-led boom in domestic drilling. Reserves of […]
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