News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

Dallas Morning News: Texas Senate seeks to fix problem in winter storm finance bill they say would increase energy costs Aug 17 — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who supports his members’ request for the PUC to make the fix, had asked for more ratepayer protection...
News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: Aug. 9 – Aug. 14

Utility Dive: As Senate passes infrastructure bill, Democrats eye opportunity for more energy spending Aug. 11 — Democrats have also teed up a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package that will include a clean electricity payment program, a clean energy...
News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: Aug. 1 – Aug. 8

Reuters: Texas rail commissioner advocates tax credits for natural gas industry Aug. 5 — Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright said in an op-ed the natural gas industry should get tax credits similar to renewable energy, to protect state infrastructure from...
News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: July 3-July 9

S&P Global: Growing problems with orphaned, abandoned wells challenges oil industry July 9 — In Texas, the Railroad Commission is charged with plugging orphaned wells, which in part entails shutting them down and filling the wellbores with cement. Even then,...
News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: June 25-July 2

Texas Standard: Corporations Can Turn Off Electricity For Past-Due Bills Starting Tuesday In Texas June 29 — The decision is expected to disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous and Latinx people, as well as seniors living on fixed incomes. — READ MORE...
News Round-Up: Aug. 15 – Aug. 20

News Round-Up: June 12-June 19

Houston Chronicle (Commentary): If Texas will not regulate methane emissions, then the feds must June 16 — The oil and natural gas deposits in the Permian Basin are millennia older than the states of Texas and New Mexico, which today sit on top of them. The...