Sinopec eyes $1B clean energy deal in Texas
A Chinese group that includes major oil company Sinopec is in advanced talks to put up to $1 billion in a Texas clean-energy project, in what would mark one of the biggest...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Texas wins latest round with EPA in federal court
A federal appeals court scolded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday for rejecting a series of state pollution control projects in Texas that federal...
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
New Texas rule to unlock secrets of hydraulic fracturing
Starting Feb. 1, drilling operators in Texas will have to report many of the chemicals used in the process known as hydraulic fracturing. Environmentalists and landowners...
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Court delays EPA cross-state air pollution rule
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday issued a last-minute order to delay the January 1 implementation of stricter federal limits on pollution from...
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Colorado, Texas set new fracking rules
Colorado and Texas adopted rules that require oil and natural-gas companies to disclose the chemicals they inject underground in the drilling technique known as fracking.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Texas sets wind power record
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas set a new record for wind-power output earlier this month as coastal wind farms start to play a bigger role in supplying electricity to the...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Worst drought in more than a century threatens Texas oil boom
The worst Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil and natural- gas drilling boom as government officials ration water supplies crucial to...
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Texas House approves fracking disclosure bill
As witnesses from Texas testified in Washington against a study of the method central to unlocking shale formations, the Texas House passed a bill that would require...
Friday, April 8th, 2011
NRG Energy kicks off electric car charging network in Texas
NRG Energy is kicking off what it calls the first privately funded plug-in electric vehicle charging network in the U.S. in the country’s oil state of Texas. On Friday...
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Showdown in Texas over EPA climate rules
There was a showdown in Texas Thursday over Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations.Gina McCarthy, the EPA’s top air official, came face to face with some of...
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Texas considering tax on gas guzzlers
Texans love their trucks and big sport utility vehicles.But those that don't meet federal fuel efficiency standards might soon cost Texans more money to continue...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
U.S. court denies Texas attempt to delay CO2 rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal court denied on Wednesday a third attempt by Texas to delay U.S. environmental regulators from imposing regulations on greenhouse gases in...
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
S. Texas shale attracting interest and billions of dollars
The Eagle Ford shale formation, a vast underground network of dense rock layers, was discovered only recently and is now thought to be one of the nation's biggest oil...
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
U.S. court denies delay for EPA carbon rules in Texas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal court on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Texas to delay the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to impose carbon regulations in...
Texas, EPA fight over regulations grows fierce
AP - A longstanding tit-for-tat between Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over how to regulate pollution has grown fierce in recent months, leaving...
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
EPA taking over greenhouse gas permits in Texas
AP - The Environmental Protection Agency is taking the unprecedented step of directly issuing air permits to industries in Texas because of the state's refusal to...
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
In climate politics, Texas aims to be the anti-California
The state has filed seven lawsuits against the EPA, and its members of Congress want to check the EPA's efforts to curb greenhouse gases. 'At times they're...
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Chinese buy third of Chesapeake South Texas field for up to $2.16 billion
China's state-owned offshore oil and gas company has bought a one-third interest in 600,000 acres that Chesapeake Energy leases in a South Texas oil and gas field....
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Texans seek industry legal protection from higher ethanol use
Texas lawmakers in both parties are seeking legal protection for oil refiners and others that fear exposure to costly lawsuits if EPA allows an increase in the amount of...
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