Vol 4, Issue 17

Federal regulators believe “there is a significant possibility” that a recent surge in North Texas earthquakes is linked to oil and gas activity, even if state regulators won’t say so.

State lawmakers on Monday considered a host of recommendations to reshape and rename the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful agency that oversees a host of oil and gas activities but not railroads.

In this week's Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Grid.

Key meetings and events over the coming weeks.

With population growth and water demand expected to accelerate in the coming years, water regulation in Texas is evolving, with emphasis on the state's 16 planning regions.

The recent severe flooding in Louisiana has stirred questions about whether people in the path of the flood were given adequate warning in what's being called a once-in-a-thousand-year event.

Supplies of available groundwater in the U.S. are declining, even in wetter-than-average areas, because of increasing demand that stresses recharge capabilities.

The Olympics brought attention to Rio de Janeiro's badly polluted Guanabara Bay, but other bodies of water around the planet are just as polluted.

NOAA has launched a new supercomputing tool that that the federal agency is touting as a major improvement in flood forecasting.

Using data from the Texas Water Development Board's reservoir status tracker, our auto-updating map visualizes the current state of Texas reservoirs.