April 17, 2019
As state Senator Robert Nichols‘ plan to involve electricity coops in future distribution of Internet connectivity moves through the Legislature, the federal government is announcing new funding for a similar project….
April 16, 2019
Sen. Kel Seliger‘s SB 1394 — once referred to as the “haircut bill” — is set to go before the full Senate after being passed out of the Business and Commerce committee on April 4th…
April 16, 2019
The Texas Senate is preparing to take up a bill to protect the “integrity in the construction of critical electrical infrastructure” and maintain state utility commission jurisdiction over electrical transmission lines that are not in the ERCOT area….
April 16, 2019
Rep. Lyle Larson‘s bill to set out specific provisions for Texas groundwater districts to keep them from violating private property rights by unduly impeding, delaying, or denying the issuance of groundwater permits passed to engrossment in the Texas House on Monday….
April 16, 2019
A bill aimed at lessening the number of lawsuits over how people are paid at natural gas utilities passed 103-38 in the Texas House on Monday….
April 16, 2019
A bill to create a group charged with studying the interaction between groundwater and surface water in Texas has passed from the House Natural Resources committee to the House floor….
Witnesses, including one in litigation with San Miguel Electric Coop, say they fear bill will undermine private property rights; Texas Mining and Reclamation Association argues that bill does not
April 16, 2019
Just who might have interested legal standing in Railroad Commission hearings in contesting permit renewals and bond releases was the center of testimony before the Texas House Energy Resources committee on Monday….
April 16, 2019
A bill giving the Railroad Commission of Texas the ability to make direct purchases in connection with abandoned mines moved from the state House Energy Resources committee to the full House on Monday….
April 16, 2019
The Texas House Energy Resources committee on Monday passed to the full House two bills on pipeline reporting requirements sponsored by District 103 state Rep. Rafael Anchia, described as a direct response to pipeline explosions in North Texas….
April 16, 2019
ExxonMobil has three new blocks for exploration after winning Agentina’s first offshore bid round, adding about two-and-a-half million net acres to the Irving-based company’s existing Argentine holdings….
April 16, 2019
Misinformation could be environmental and anti-fossil fuel activists’ weapon of choice in the future, according to legal experts speaking at a Houston convention.,,,
April 11, 2019
The Texas Emission Reduction Program (TERP) extension bill has passed the Texas Senate….
April 11, 2019
Among the more urgent tasks of the 86th Texas Legislature is the continuation of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, and state Sen. Dawn Buckingham‘s (and Sen. Brian Birdwell‘s) SB 604, renewing and amending some duties of the agency passed the Texas Senate on Thursday….
April 11, 2019
In “pursuit of efficiency and consistency,” a bill was passed by the Texas Senate to transfer the duty of regulating gasoline and diesel fuel pumps and fuel quality from the state Department of Agriculture to a “true regulatory entity,” the Texas Dept. of Licensing and Regulation, as the bill’s sponsor put it….
April 11, 2019
The Railroad Commission of Texas will be able to make direct purchases in connection with abandoned mines rather than wait for the state comptroller’s permission under a bill that passed the Texas Senate on Thursday….
April 11, 2019
With the rise of energy brokers in Texas, a bill passed by the Texas Senate on Thursday is intended to bring such brokers into registration requirements with the Public Utility Commission….
April 11, 2019
A bill eliminating public hearings in cases where recipients of violation notices don’t respond to PUC notifications has passed the Texas Senate….
April 11, 2019
A bill to ease the electricity market-share-review administrative burden of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has passed the Texas Senate…..
April 11, 2019
The Port of Galveston would receive access to money in the Ship Channel Improvement Revolving Fund under a bill passed by the Texas Senate on Thursday….
April 11, 2019
Former state representative Lon Bernum called a radioactive waste control bill before the Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulations the first in more than 15 years that is actually in the public interest…..