At issue is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a stockpile of over 700 million barrels of crude oil stored in Texas and Louisiana. Congressional lawmakers are uncertain of the reserve’s role in an age of abundance.
Energy
In-depth reporting on oil, gas, renewable power, and policies shaping the future of energy in Texas from The Texas Tribune.
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Bills Aim to Speed Up Permits, Limit Protests
Business-friendly Texas still isn’t quite friendly enough, Republican lawmakers say, and they’re pushing legislation to curtail public input and speed up permits issued by state environmental regulators.
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UT Survey Finds Support for City Fracking Decisions
A hefty slice of Americans support local control over hydraulic fracturing, according to new University of Texas at Austin survey.
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Watchdogs Question Fraser’s Energy Holdings
As the Texas Legislature ponders ethics reforms to increase transparency and reduce conflicts of interests among its members, a key state lawmaker is facing new questions about whether his private business affairs are impacting his public duties.
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Video: The Future of Energy
On 4/24, I talked about the future of energy policy in Texas with SMU’s Bruce Bullock; state Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo; former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza; and state Rep. Morgan Meyer, R-Dallas.
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Justices Prolong North Texas Fracking Battle
In the latest chapter of a long-running legal fight, a Fort Worth oil and gas company has received permission from the Texas Supreme Court to pursue defamation damages from a Parker County man.
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Video: Crowdfunding Powers Energy Bill Assistance Effort
You’ve heard of crowdsourcing funding for nonprofits. Now one person is testing his online platform in Texas to crowdsource money to help people pay their energy bills in a new Travis County community.
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Nonprofits Crowdfunding Power to the People
Trying to create a “new direction in the energy sector,” a computer scientist in Austin is using crowdfunding to help low-income Texans pay their electricity bills.
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New in Trib+Water: Problematic Fracking Data
In this week’s edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: One study finds inconsistent policies on fracking, another finds industry-supplied fracking data is incomplete and an interview with Yongli Gao of the Center for Water Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Study: Gas Activities “Most Likely” Caused Texas Quakes
Gas industry activity “most likely” triggered a series of earthquakes that shook two North Texas towns from late 2013 through early 2014, new peer-reviewed research shows.