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Cultivated Meat Companies Sue Texas Over Its Lab-Grown Meat Ban
Sep 5 2025 // Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years. California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated...
Insured Losses in Texas Exceed $47 Billion in 2024
Sep 5 2025 // Insured losses exceeded $47.2 billion in Texas last year—a 4.2% increase over 2023, according to a new property and casualty market report from the state’s insurance council. Annual direct losses in Texas have now...
Texas Lawmakers Fail to Reach Agreement on THC Ban
Sep 4 2025 // The Texas House gaveled out of the second special session late Wednesday, leaving behind Senate Bill 6, which would have broadly banned consumable hemp products with any “detectable amount of any cannabinoid.”...
River Valley Underwriters Acquires Texas’ Patriot National Underwriters
Sep 4 2025 // River Valley Underwriters, Inc has announced that it will be acquiring the book of business from Patriot National Underwriters, Inc, as well as the current employees. The parties expect to complete the transaction...
Texas Program Aims to Reduce Car Crashes and Fatalities in Permian Basin
Sep 3 2025 // Workers at the Texas Department of Transportation have begun responding to calls to remove debris and abandoned vehicles from West Texas roads and extinguish vehicle fires. They also change flat tires and jumpstart car...
Multi-Vehicle Crash in East Texas Injures 17
Sep 3 2025 // A multi-vehicle crash Saturday on an East Texas interstate sent 17 injured people to area hospitals and shut down a major interstate for hours. None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening after the crash along...
AvonRisk Acquires Texas’ AS&G Claims Administration and Care Logic
Sep 2 2025 // AvonRisk, a national provider of risk management, claims administration, and managed care services, announced today that it has acquired AS&G Claims Administration, Inc., and Care Logic, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based...
A Texas Congressman Is Helping Musk Pitch $760M Tunnel Project for Flooding
Aug 29 2025 // The devastating flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 killed dozens of people, inundated hundreds of thousands of homes and left the community desperate for a solution. Since then, local flood experts have...
Trump Delays Mercury Pollution Rule, Helps Texas Coal Plants
Aug 28 2025 // For Donna Thomas, smokestacks are a typical sight from her home in Fort Bend County. Since she was a child, she has seen the coal and natural gas-powered W.A. Parish Generating Station puff clouds of haze during the day...
Texas Serial Arsonist Charged With Starting Hay Bale Fires
Aug 27 2025 // A serial arsonist in Lavaca County, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of felony vehicle arson and admitted to starting six hay bale fires dating to 2024, the Texas Department of Insurance announced this week. The...
Texas Bill Would Levy Stricter Penalties on Camps Following Hill Country Flood
Aug 26 2025 // A bill that would tighten how youth camps are penalized for safety deficiencies and that would diminish the industry’s influence on a state advisory committee has gained traction in the Legislature. While Senate Bill...
Emergency Recordings Show Chaos of Deadly Texas Floods
Aug 25 2025 // Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders...
Texas Lawmakers Advance Flood Bills With Grieving Parents in Attendance
Aug 22 2025 // Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before...
Texas Is Warning Health Providers to Stop Mailing Abortion Pills to State
Aug 21 2025 // Texas officials are warning health care providers to stop sending abortion pills into the state or risk fines and prosecution, as Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks to halt the flow of medicine that’s circumventing...
People Moves: Texas Mutual Elects Cogan to Board of Directors
Aug 20 2025 // Doug Cogan, of Cypress, Texas, has been elected to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board of directors. He was elected at the company’s annual policyholder meeting. Cogan’s board terms for Texas Mutual, the...
Texas Senate Passes Bills Aimed at Improving Flood Safety
Aug 19 2025 // The Texas Senate quickly got to work Monday by passing several bills on the chamber’s desk as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session of the year for the Legislature, focusing first on...
Texas Shows How Trump’s Anti-Green Moves Threaten a Red Economy
Aug 19 2025 // Deep-red Texas needs to build power plants at an astonishing speed and scale to keep its economy humming. President Donald Trump just made that much harder. So many data centers, crypto-mining operations and factories are...
US Plans $750M Fly Factory in Texas to Stop a Flesh-Eating Cattle Parasite
Aug 18 2025 // The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle...
Texas Blames ESG Goals in Probe of Xcel Over 2024 Wildfires
Aug 18 2025 // The Texas attorney general is investigating utility Xcel Energy Inc. and its contractor for two wildfires that devastated the state last year, saying the companies may have prioritized environmental and diversity goals...
Texas Economy Slowing Amid Trade Policies and Immigration Crackdown
Aug 15 2025 // All signs point to a slowdown of the Texas economy as job growth slows, construction declines and inflation ticks up, according to a Monday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The report on the Fed’s recent...
