Earlier this week, Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief medical officer of Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment, told The Greeley Tribune that he doesn’t “see anything to be concerned about” with regard to public health effects from fracking:

In Texas and other states along the Gulf Coast, the economic and job impacts from the extreme “Keep It In The Ground” fossil fuel campaign would be severe. According to a recent U.S. Chamber study, a ban on oil and gas production on federal land and waters – as promoted by the “Keep It In […]

SolarCity, the rooftop solar power company founded by Elon Musk’s cousin, Lyndon Rive, yesterday announced its expansion to the Austin, TX market.

Multiple news outlets are reporting today that Houston-based Apache Corp. has discovered “one of the biggest energy finds of the past decade.” The oil field, discovered in an overlooked 350,000 acre portion of West Texas in the Permian Basin, could hold more than three billion barrels of oil – the equivalent of an entire year […]

Yesterday, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined forces to thwart environmental activists of the “Keep It In The Ground” movement, passing, with no objections, the Offshore Leasing Act, that modernizes and creates greater transparency by moving bidding on offshore drilling rights to an internet-based auction system.

While the protests in North Dakota over the Dakota Access Pipeline have turned into violent riots, The Dallas Morning News reported that some of demonstrators have made their way to Texas to protest in front of Energy Transfer Partners, the Dallas-based company constructing the pipeline.