Texas Lawmakers Criticize Local Leaders for Rejecting Flood Warning System Funding December 3, 2025 By Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders...
Texas Voters Approve $20B Investment in Water Supply November 5, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Texas is poised to make the largest investment in its water supply in the state’s 180-year history after voters on...
Texas Residents to Vote on $20B Package to Secure State’s Water Supply October 20, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune LONGVIEW — In this part of Texas, residents stock up on bottled water in between boil notices. It’s part of...
Grad Students are Developing a Way to Cool Texas Data Centers Without Water September 29, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Sai Abhideep Pundla has been awake since 3 a.m. After a red-eye flight from Las Vegas, where he briefed data...
Staff Vacancies Hit Texas Weather Offices as They Prepare for Hurricane Season June 10, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune With hurricane season underway and an above-normal activity forecast, some National Weather Service offices like Houston — where as many...
Texas Lawmakers Spike Bills to Study, Restrict PFAS June 2, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune FORT WORTH — Rising public concern in Texas over PFAS, or “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, infertility and immune disorders...
Texas Bill That Limits Spread of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Misses Key Deadline May 14, 2025 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune A bill aimed at limiting the spread of toxic chemicals on Texas farmland has hit a political wall — missing...
Delay in Federal Permits Hinders Texas Oil Companies’ Carbon Capture Projects February 11, 2025 By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Texas oil companies and regulators have waited years for federal permits that would allow those companies to suck carbon dioxide...
Texas Bill Aims to Combat Forever Chemicals in Fertilizers December 23, 2024 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Johnson County’s newest state representative, Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, filed her first bill Friday targeting an environmental problem that has struck...
Texas Senate to Pursue Ban on THC Products in 2025 December 6, 2024 By Jasper Scherer, The Texas Tribune and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable...