Trump Removes U.S. from Paris Accord, Defying Exxon and Other Energy Giants
Texas-based oil companies told Trump they hoped to keep their seats at the table.
Reporting and commentary on the Texas energy industry and innovations shaping its future
Texas-based oil companies told Trump they hoped to keep their seats at the table.
The oil giant’s request came as former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is the sitting Secretary of State.
Environmental defense official says Trump would undo progress in Texas.
A Venezuelan loan default could give Putin a stake in Texas oil refining.
It isn't all early bluebonnets and sunshine.
Expect Standing Rock-like resistance from Canadian First Nation tribes and environmentalists.
Bringing back coal is not in Texas’s best interest.
Well that’s one way to try to invade a home.
What rolling back the centerpiece of Barack Obama's climate agenda could mean for Texas.
For decades Texas has been the largest producer of transportation fuels in the United States. Our refineries have produced gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that mobilized the nation and made the state rich. But based on current projections, demand for gasoline will decrease significantly in the coming decades because of
At the CERAWeek conference in Houston, everyone wanted to talk about one thing: the Permian Basin.
French oil company chairman says not to expect big investments.
John Goodenough’s new battery could change cars, phones, and more.
NRG Energy built the world’s largest carbon capture unit in Fort Bend County, but what is the technology’s future?
The head of the Texas Oil and Gas Association says environmentalists are trying to block production.
An energy plan in two parts: don’t screw up what we have going for us, and don’t settle for what we’ve done so far.
How Houston became the center of the Texas oil boom.
Plus: U.S. Representative Louis Gohmert introduces legislation around fracking.
Our favorite political reads of the week.
Enacting a carbon tax would free up private firms to find the most efficient ways to cut emissions.
Barry Smitherman, the former chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, reportedly met with President Donald Trump's transition team.
If an import tax proposal goes through, refineries would have to pass costs on to consumers.
Plus: Home Depot invests in wind energy and Trans-Pecos protests grow.
There’s been a recent uptick in activity in the Permian Basin. This week we look back at the last time West Texas was booming.
Using the Dakota Access Pipeline as a blueprint, Native Americans and other activists have brought protests to West Texas.
When OPEC let oil prices plunge, U.S. producers responded by improving fracking technology.
Here are a few of the biggest headlines in Texas energy this week.
Consumers, refineries, computer makers, and Toyota could feel the pain from new president's proposals.
Trump reverses Obama's order on Keystone’s pipeline into Canada, and that could have an impact on Texas refineries.
Reporting on a different kind of power in Texas.
With Rex Tillerson and Rick Perry on his team, Donald Trump is all set to revive the fortunes of the Texas energy sector.
Rick Perry manages to avoid being pinned down at his Senate confirmation hearing.
He’s often described as “diplomatic,” but negotiating business is different than negotiating global relations.
Sherron Watkins, fifteen years later.
There's been a lot of hang-wringing over what could happen to one of the state's most treasured pools in the midst of the latest oil discovery, but an environmental research group is optimistic about the outcome.
The worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history is getting the Hollywood treatment in "Deepwater Horizon," out today.
Using satellite technology, scientists determined wastewater disposal injections triggered several Texas quakes.
Four years after his indictment, one of the only people prosecuted for the Deepwater Horizon explosion tells his side of the story.
What the Republican presidential candidate’s comments about oil and natural gas say about geopolitics.
A look at the state of the West Texas sinkholes.
Every month, the customers of the state’s smallest energy transmission utility open their bills—and can’t believe what they see.
How Aubrey McClendon, “America’s most reckless billionaire,” left some Houston energy firms holding the tab.
Katharine Hayhoe has made it her life’s mission to proclaim the truth about climate change. Can she get the skeptics to listen?
It sounds like a sweet deal, but it doesn't make sense for the Bayou City.
Setting the energy bar in Houston.
For a few months every year, life in West Texas is defined by the wind.
As the price of crude keeps plunging and the oil and gas layoffs mount, more and more bad news is coming from Houston’s residential real estate market, even as some developers are building or planning still more luxury condo projects.
Don’t be fooled by claims of economic diversification—the city still runs on oil.
Let’s not overreact, but let’s not underreact either.
As the oil industry tries to make inroads in far West Texas, it’s learning that Alpine is no Midland.