Many industries bear a portion of the blame for the failure of Texas’s electric grid. But one seems to be escaping strict requirements to better prepare for future storms.
State leaders have pointed fingers at everything from windmills to the bureaucrats at ERCOT. But the real issue is the electric grid’s reliance on a lightly regulated natural gas production industry.
There are not enough pipelines to take away the natural gas being produced in the Permian Basin.
Can Texas’s oil and natural gas boom keep going forever?…
The new $8 billion project will be fed in part with natural gas from the South Texas and Eagle Ford Shale fields.
Exxon Mobil announced plans to expand its hulking Baytown petrochemical plant and refinery Thursday.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott scored a victory over the EPA this week over when a federal appeals court ordered the federal agency to take more time to consider Texas's pollution control measures.
Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have given us a natural gas boom—and a whole lot of questions. …
As hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has unlocked untold reserves of natural gas, it has also unleashed a wave of concerns about pollution and, for one family in the Barnett Shale, a long nightmare.
Pollution from Mexico is already plaguing West Texas—and it's only going to get worse.
