News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

KBTX: New solar farm in Grimes County set to power over 45,000 homes and businesses July 16 — Construction continues on Blue Jay Solar Farm off Highway 164 in Iola. The green energy provider will house more than 650,000 solar panels across more than 3,000 acres....
News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: July 10-July 17

Austonia: Tesla will build ‘the nation’s most sustainable’ solar neighborhood in Southeast Austin July 9 — The first Tesla Solar neighborhood—dubbed the nation’s most sustainable residential community—will be built in Easton Park, a...
News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: July 3-July 9

S&P Global: Growing problems with orphaned, abandoned wells challenges oil industry July 9 — In Texas, the Railroad Commission is charged with plugging orphaned wells, which in part entails shutting them down and filling the wellbores with cement. Even then,...
News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: June 25-July 2

Texas Standard: Corporations Can Turn Off Electricity For Past-Due Bills Starting Tuesday In Texas June 29 — The decision is expected to disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous and Latinx people, as well as seniors living on fixed incomes. — READ MORE...
News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: June 12-June 19

Houston Chronicle (Commentary): If Texas will not regulate methane emissions, then the feds must June 16 — The oil and natural gas deposits in the Permian Basin are millennia older than the states of Texas and New Mexico, which today sit on top of them. The...
News Round-Up: July 18-July 23

News Round-Up: June 5-June 11

KXAN: Some are concerned Texas’ new ERCOT reform bills will cost customers June 8 — There are concerns new laws intended to prevent massive power outages like what we saw during February’s winter storm don’t go far enough. — READ MORE Texas Tribune: Texas...