Data center developers in Texas plan massive new gas power projects

A handful of mega data center projects would emit over 100 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, an enormous amount roughly equal to the annual emissions of a mid-sized industrialized country.

by Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News August 29, 2026August 29, 2026

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The 12 largest gas power projects planned in Texas are all specifically intended to run data centers, according to data released Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor, a global nonprofit […]

Texas News

Researchers find microplastics in nearly every Texas waterway sampled in new statewide study

Of the 77 total samples collected from Texas coastal waters, lakes, rivers and streams, 76 were contaminated with plastic particles.

by Sanford Nowlin July 27, 2026July 27, 2026

News

How a tiny Texas river agency plans to build the largest desalination plant in the country

Officials from the Nueces River Authority collected millions of dollars from cities and utility districts near San Antonio and Austin before they partnered with an Israeli desalination giant.

by Arcelia Martin and Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News June 22, 2026June 22, 2026

"Fashion, Flowers & Food" is a collaboration between Wild Farm and local fashion label A.L. Cortez.

Things to Do

The Wild Farm brings slow, sustainable fashion event to San Antonio’s West Side

The free “Fashion, Flowers & Food” gathering this Sunday will pair urban flower farming with DIY fashion.

by Kat McKinney June 12, 2026June 13, 2026

A SpaceX rocket on the launchpad at Starbase on Feb. 3, 2026.

Texas News

Conservation groups sue to stop SpaceX’s South Texas land deal

The groups suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife want to preserve land that holds an endangered ocelot. They also argue SpaceX’s test launches send rocket debris into the refuge lands.

by Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune June 12, 2026June 12, 2026

San Antonio News

Study: San Antonio has much room to improve when it comes to public parks

The city ranked 61st out of the 100 most-populous U.S. cities in the analysis — a four-place drop from last year.

by Julianna Plewes May 21, 2026May 21, 2026

Elida Castillo, mayor of Taft, Texas, speaks at a city park on March 31.

Texas News

Disaster declarations ripple through South Texas amid water crisis

Small towns around Corpus Christi worry where they’ll fall on the pecking order if the region’s water runs out.

By Dylan Baddour of Inside Climate News, Neena Satire of KUT ad Emily Salazar of KEDTApril 29, 2026April 29, 2026

A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigator tested wastewater from Tesla’s Robstown lithium refinery on Feb. 12.

Texas News

Independent testing where Tesla’s lithium refinery discharges wastewater found toxic metals

The drainage district that commissioned the test has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Elon Musk-owned carmaker’s operations, near Corpus Christi.

by Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News April 24, 2026April 24, 2026

Pat Parenteau worked to secure protections for the whooping crane when the “God Squad” first met 50 years ago.

Texas News

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ is not like the God Squads before it

‘This idea that you can invoke a national security exemption when there is no threat to national security is not only brand new, it’s ridiculous.’

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on EarthApril 4, 2026April 4, 2026

A crew works on a temporarily docked offshore drilling rig in Port of Galveston, Texas.

Texas News

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ to weigh Gulf of Mexico drilling against survival of endangered whales and turtles

Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

by Kiley Price, Inside Climate NewsMarch 30, 2026March 30, 2026

Autumn trees reflecting fall colors in the clear water of the Guadalupe River.

San Antonio News

‘Disaster waiting to happen’: How the fracking boom put an oilfield in the Guadalupe River floodplain

Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

By Dylan Baddour, Peter Aldhous, Inside Climate NewsFebruary 14, 2026February 14, 2026

A work crew installs panels on the border wall in rural South Texas.

Texas News

South Texas advocates urge Congress to restore protections for public lands in border wall’s path

After years of bipartisan carveouts from Congress, plans for the border wall now cut through wildlife refuges and cultural sites in the Rio Grande Valley.

by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News February 9, 2026February 9, 2026

EPA workers and supporters protest job cuts at a rally in Chicago during the first Trump administration.

News Features

Trump’s EPA Focus: Delay, rescind, dismantle environmental and health protections

For the first time in the agency’s 55-year history, Congress has ceded its responsibility to oversee the EPA to a single politician who sanctioned its ‘wholesale demolition,’ former staff charge.

by Liza Gross, Inside Climate NewsJanuary 3, 2026January 3, 2026

This Sunday, a free orientation will letter San Antonians get a better understanding of urban forestry.

Things to Do

Free event this Sunday to show San Antonio residents how to be urban foresters

This orientation is the first step to joining monthly volunteer sessions, which run on the first Saturday of each month from October through May.

by Anjali Gupta December 31, 2025December 31, 2025

Texas News

The world’s last flock of wild whooping cranes gets more living space in Texas

Once on the brink of extinction, these birds are expanding their grounds on an isolated stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas.

by Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News December 28, 2025December 28, 2025

The SpaceX Starship on the launchpad on August 24, 2025.

Texas News

Trump administration weighing new South Texas land exchange with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Federal officials are considering swapping 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge with the aerospace company, according to The New York Times.

by Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune December 24, 2025December 24, 2025

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend and a Karankawa descendent.

Texas News

Indigenous groups fight to save rediscovered settlement site on Texas coast

Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site on Corpus Christi Bay may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical facilities.

by Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News December 23, 2025December 23, 2025

Texas drastically cut its environmental protection budget even as the number of companies in the state requiring air pollution permits grew by 15%.

Texas News

Texas cut more from its environmental budget than nearly any state

The deep cuts come as the Trump White House wants to slash the EPA budget and require states to do more pollution oversight.

by Sanford Nowlin December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

Smoke rises from the 2019 ITC fire in suburban Houston.

Bad Takes

Bad Takes: ‘We have the best political system right now that private money can buy’

Sadly, what was once labeled corruption has become the way U.S. politics works.

by Kevin Sanchez November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

The border wall cuts across a stretch of land.

Texas News

The U.S.-Mexico border wall may pose perils to pollinators

Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U.S. government to curb migration and trafficking.

By Tina Deines, Inside Climate News October 20, 2025October 20, 2025