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Sable Offshore Corp., based in Houston, is facing a slew of legal challenges but is determined to restart oil production off the coast of California, even if that means confining it to federal waters, where state regulators have virtually no say.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Houston #Local #National #News #Politics #HoustonOilAndGas #HoustonOilAndGasIndustry #OffshoreDrilling #OilAndGas #PlainsAllAmericanPipeline #SableOffshoreCorp
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Energy experts speaking at a virtual Reliable Grid Project media briefing Wednesday said renewable power sources are needed to keep up with Texas' growing demand for electricity.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #CleanEnergy #Ercot #ReliableGridProject #RenewableEnergy #TexasGrid
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Energy experts speaking at a virtual Reliable Grid Project media briefing Wednesday said renewable power sources are needed to keep up with Texas' growing demand for electricity.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #CleanEnergy #Ercot #ReliableGridProject #RenewableEnergy #TexasGrid
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Energy experts speaking at a virtual Reliable Grid Project media briefing Wednesday said renewable power sources are needed to keep up with Texas' growing demand for electricity.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #CleanEnergy #Ercot #ReliableGridProject #RenewableEnergy #TexasGrid
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Energy experts speaking at a virtual Reliable Grid Project media briefing Wednesday said renewable power sources are needed to keep up with Texas' growing demand for electricity.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #CleanEnergy #Ercot #ReliableGridProject #RenewableEnergy #TexasGrid
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Energy experts speaking at a virtual Reliable Grid Project media briefing Wednesday said renewable power sources are needed to keep up with Texas' growing demand for electricity.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #CleanEnergy #Ercot #ReliableGridProject #RenewableEnergy #TexasGrid
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Houston-based company Occidental Petroleum will sell its chemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #BerkshireHathaway #Occidental #OccidentalPetroleum #OxyChem
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Houston-based company Occidental Petroleum will sell its chemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #BerkshireHathaway #Occidental #OccidentalPetroleum #OxyChem
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Houston-based company Occidental Petroleum will sell its chemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #BerkshireHathaway #Occidental #OccidentalPetroleum #OxyChem
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Houston-based company Occidental Petroleum will sell its chemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #BerkshireHathaway #Occidental #OccidentalPetroleum #OxyChem
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Houston-based company Occidental Petroleum will sell its chemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #BerkshireHathaway #Occidental #OccidentalPetroleum #OxyChem
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A new gas power plant in Baytown from NRG Energy will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money as part of a loan from the state, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday.
#EnergyEnvironment #Local #News #Texas #Ercot #NaturalGasPowerPlants #NrgEnergy #PUCT #TexasEnergyFund
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CPS Energy has agreed to purchase four natural gas power plants in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties for nearly $1.4 billion from PROENERGY, which will continue to maintain and operate the plants.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Galveston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #BrazoriaCounty #CPSEnergy #GalvestonCounty #HoustonGasPlants #Tpr
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CPS Energy has agreed to purchase four natural gas power plants in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties for nearly $1.4 billion from PROENERGY, which will continue to maintain and operate the plants.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Galveston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #BrazoriaCounty #CPSEnergy #GalvestonCounty #HoustonGasPlants #Tpr
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CPS Energy has agreed to purchase four natural gas power plants in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties for nearly $1.4 billion from PROENERGY, which will continue to maintain and operate the plants.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Galveston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #BrazoriaCounty #CPSEnergy #GalvestonCounty #HoustonGasPlants #Tpr
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CPS Energy has agreed to purchase four natural gas power plants in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties for nearly $1.4 billion from PROENERGY, which will continue to maintain and operate the plants.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Galveston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #BrazoriaCounty #CPSEnergy #GalvestonCounty #HoustonGasPlants #Tpr
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CPS Energy has agreed to purchase four natural gas power plants in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties for nearly $1.4 billion from PROENERGY, which will continue to maintain and operate the plants.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Galveston #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #BrazoriaCounty #CPSEnergy #GalvestonCounty #HoustonGasPlants #Tpr
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The EPA has issued an air-quality permit for a proposed deep-water crude oil port about 30 miles off the shore of Freeport. Supporters say it takes an extra step toward reducing emissions. Environmental advocates worry it will exacerbate pollution.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Environment #Local #News #CrudeOil #DeepwaterDrilling #EnvironmentalIntegrityProject #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Freeport #TexasGulfLink
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Following years of delays, the Environmental Protection Agency has approved a cleanup plan for the San Jacinto River waste pits, a contaminated site near Houston. The approval comes with a set of strict requirements.
#EnergyEnvironment #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Dioxins #HoustonPollution #SanJacintoRiver #SanJacintoRiverWastePits #TexasHealthAndEnvironmentalAlliance #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency
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Elon Musk said his proposal to build tunnels to address Houston's chronic flooding woes would work, after an investigation raised questions about the plan's effectiveness. But experts say his plan has key technical and logistical challenges.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Flooding #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #ElonMusk #HarrisCountyFloodControlDistrict #HurricaneHarvey #TheBoringCo
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Houston-area residents likely will see increased charges on their next round of electricity bills.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #CenterPointEnergy #ElectricityBills #EnergyRates #HoustonElectricityCosts
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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For years, experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels under the area to divert floodwaters and save lives and property. Now, Elon Musk wants a piece of the project.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Flooding #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #ElonMusk #HurricaneHarvey #USCongress
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Fort Bend County residents are pushing back against proposed concrete plants in their neighborhoods. Concerned about noise, dust and proximity to schools and community centers, they are turning to local leaders for help.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #FortBend #Local #News #ConcreteBatchPlant #FortBendCounty #MissouriCity #RockCrushingPlant
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave Texas vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #ElectricGrid #KUT #NaturalGas #RailroadCommissionOfTexas #TexasWinterStorm #WinterStorm
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave Texas vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #ElectricGrid #KUT #NaturalGas #RailroadCommissionOfTexas #TexasWinterStorm #WinterStorm
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave Texas vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #ElectricGrid #KUT #NaturalGas #RailroadCommissionOfTexas #TexasWinterStorm #WinterStorm
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave Texas vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #ElectricGrid #KUT #NaturalGas #RailroadCommissionOfTexas #TexasWinterStorm #WinterStorm
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave Texas vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #ElectricGrid #KUT #NaturalGas #RailroadCommissionOfTexas #TexasWinterStorm #WinterStorm
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NRG Energy has secured a multimillion-dollar state loan to construct two new natural gas units at a power plant in Houston.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #Texas #2021WinterStorm #ERCOTGrid #GovGregAbbott #NaturalGasPowerPlants #NrgEnergy #PublicUtilityCommissionOfTexas
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Disaster preparedness and flood recovery are at the top of the agenda for Texas' special legislative session. Many of the measures likely to come up for debate were considered months or years before the deadly flash flood in the Hill Country.
#EnergyEnvironment #Flooding #Houston #Local #National #News #Politics #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #DisasterPreparedness #FederalEmergencyManagementAgency #SpecialSession #TexasHillCountryFlooding #TexasRedistricting
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While some recently retired career NWS meteorologists said local offices in Texas appear to have performed their duties admirably during the floods, they also said the offices have been hindered by staff reductions and the loss of senior staff.
#EnergyEnvironment #Galveston #Houston #Local #News #Texas #Weather #Flooding #KUT #NationalWeatherService #NationalWeatherServiceHoustonGalveston #Noaa
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As Central Texas and much of the state grapples with catastrophic flooding, Houston marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Beryl.
#ClimateChange #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Hurricane #Infrastructure #Local #News #Texas #Weather #Centerpoint #CentralTexasFloods #HurricaneBeryl #HurricaneBerylAnniversary #KinderInstituteForUrbanResearch #StormPreparedness
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The very qualities that draw people to the Texas Hill Country — its rolling terrain, limestone formations and lazy rivers — also make the area especially dangerous during heavy rainstorms.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #Weather #GuadalupeRiver #TexasHillCountry #TopStory #Tpr
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Several groups have mobilized to offer assistance to people affected by the Guadalupe River floods.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #Texas #GuadalupeRiverFlood #KerrCounty #TopStories #Tpr
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up ExxonMobil’s appeal regarding a multimillion-dollar penalty against the oil and gas giant for thousands of environmental violations at its Baytown petrochemical plant.
#Business #Court #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #SupremeCourt #BaytownRefinery #EnvironmentTexas #ExxonEmissions #ExxonMobil #SierraClub #USSupremeCourt
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As nuclear manufacturers and researchers descend on Texas, responding to the governor's legislative call, environmentalists and analysts voice their concerns.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Local #News #Technology #Texas #AIData #ArtificialIntelligence #ElectricGrid #GulfCoast #KUT #NuclearEnergy
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Texas residents and businesses who sued utility companies for cutting power during the 2021 winter storm didn't adequately prove the companies were intentionally negligent in causing widespread blackouts, the Texas Supreme Court ruled.
#Business #Court #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Infrastructure #Local #News #Texas #CenterPointEnergy #Ercot #Lawsuits #TexasSupremeCourt #Winter #WinterStormUri2021
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From Public Health Watch: In the first 5 months of his 2nd term, President Trump changed federal environmental regulations, and the agencies that enforce them, in ways that will directly affect Texans who live near oil refineries and petrochemical facilities. #publichealthwatch
#EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #AirAllianceHouston #AirPollutionInHouston #Channelview #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #HoustonShipChannel #TrumpAdministration
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Jamaica Beach, located on the west side of Galveston Island, is receiving 61,000 cubic yards of new sand to help protect the shoreline from erosion.
#EnergyEnvironment #Galveston #Hurricane #Local #News #Fema #GalvestonIsland #HurricaneIke #JamaicaBeach #TexasGeneralLandOffice #TexasLandCommissionerDawnBuckingham
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Sunnova, a Houston-based solar energy company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy days after laying off more than half of the company's workforce.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Houston #Local #News #BankruptcyCourt #Chapter11Bankruptcy #SouthernDistrictOfTexas #Sunnova #SunnovaEnergy #SunnovaEnergyInternationalInc
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is asking Texas residents for input on a new rule change that environmental advocates say would use money paid by motorists to offset pollution caused by industry.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Galveston #Houston #Local #News #Texas #Transportation #AirPollution #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #KERANews #Ozone #PublicCitizen #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality
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This year, Texas lawmakers passed over 1,200 bills. Among them were several important pieces of legislation focused on energy and the environment.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #Politics #Texas #ChemicalStorage #RenewableEnergy #TexasLegislature #TexasPowerGrid #TexasWater #TexasWaterDevelopmentBoard
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Months after elevated levels of toxic chemicals were detected outside of a Fifth Ward community center in Houston, the Environmental Protection Agency's most recent soil testing results returned safe levels.
#EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #CancerClusters #Creosote #Dioxins #FifthWard #KashmereGardens #SoilTesting
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The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday canceled more than $1 billion in clean energy funding for Texas as part of a continuing effort to reduce federal spending.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #Local #National #News #Texas #Baytown #CleanEnergy #ExxonMobil #GulfCoast #TrumpAdministration #USDepartmentOfEnergy
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A Houston-based nonprofit is investing in biomanufacturing startups, which use renewable products like corn or seaweed in place of nonrenewable resources like petroleum.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #FortBend #HealthScience #Local #News #Biomanufacturing #BioWell #FirstBightVentures #FortBendCounty #Sustainability