Several Houston-area Congress members are urging congressional leaders in charge of infrastructure to fund the Texas Coastal Spine — better known as the “Ike Dike.” In a letter penned this week, Houston area lawmakers urged Committee on Transportation and...
Right now, the release of millions of genetically-engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is sparking controversy. The trial, which seeks to curb the population of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is the first of its kind in the United States. Reports have suggested that...
With the Biden Administration preparing to celebrate their first 100 days, one common theme is emerging: a persistent legal foe in the form of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The embattled AG, currently under investigation by the FBI for abuse of office and...
Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Ike. The 2015 Memorial Day Floods. Hurricane Harvey. The 2019 ITC Chemical Plant Fire. And now the Winter Storms of 2021. Living in the oil and gas capital of the world, it’s no surprise that every few seasons come with another 800-year...
After a cataclysmic winter storm left millions of Texans without power and water, the Sunrise Movement is mobilizing across the state and demanding answers from leaders at every level of Texas government. The Sunrise Movement is a grassroots collection of young people...
Gov. Greg Abbott recently released his proposed budget for the 2022-2023 biennium. The budget proposal mostly focuses on distributing federal funding for COVID-19 as well as the emergency items listed in the governor’s “State of the State” address last week....
Two weeks after the Capitol attack he helped inspire, Sen. Ted Cruz is back to rallying the remnants of Trump’s base, from wearing a “come and take it” mask at Biden’s inauguration to echoing Trump’s words in a statement reacting to the U.S. rejoining the Paris...
What’s happening on the West Coast is terrifying: charred towns and neighborhoods, grieving families, hundreds of square miles of pristine habitat and recreational land devastated by fires. These photos hit home particularly hard for those in the Bastrop area who...
The GOP’s battle with facts and science continues. On Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn took to the Senate floor to downplay the effect that climate change has had on the fires raging in the West Coast, instead pointing to forest management. Cornyn accused...