ICN Texas

How a Technology Similar to Fracking Can Store Renewable Energy Underground Without Lithium Batteries

Three Houston startups are using fracking-like techniques to create underground storage caverns for pressurized water, which when released drives a turbine to send power to the grid.

By Dylan Baddour

Houston’s Plastic Waste, Waiting More Than a Year for ‘Advanced’ Recycling, Piles up at a Business Failed Three Times by Fire Marshal

By James Bruggers

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Approval of Massive LNG Export Plants in South Texas

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune

Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune

A Legal Fight Over Legacy Oil Industry Pollution Heats Up in West Texas

By Martha Pskowski

Three Facilities Contribute Half of Houston’s Chemical Air Pollution

By Dylan Baddour

New Federal Grants Could Slash U.S. Climate Emissions by Nearly 1 Billion Metric Tons Through 2050

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle

Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

By Martha Pskowski, Jenaye Johnson

Rooftop Solar Was Having a Moment in Texas Before Beryl. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

Employees Suing American Airlines Don’t Want Their 401(k)s in ESG Funds

By Mathilde Augustin

Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston

By Dylan Baddour

US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining

By Keaton Peters

Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid

By Keaton Peters

US Prisons and Jails Exposed to an Increasing Number of Hazardous Heat Days, Study Says

By Sarah Hopkins

Former Pioneer CEO and Son Make Significant Political Contributions to Trump, Abbott and Christi Craddick

By Martha Pskowski

Texas Opens More Coastal Waters for Carbon Dioxide Injection Wells

By Dylan Baddour

How Can Solar Farms Defend Against Biblical-Level Hailstorms?

By Dan Gearino

New Mexico Debates What to Do With Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski