While some Texas cities have advanced bans and moratoriums on data centers until the risks are better understood, San Antonio has proceeded more cautiously toward possible regulation. And some see economic opportunity.
The treaty highlights how colonial dispossession of both Indigenous and Black communities damaged generational relations among peoples. Does it also point the way toward healing our broken relationship with water?
Seattle has a plan to address the proliferation of plastics. How can we replicate its successes in less eco-friendly cities and states?
The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.
'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.
Plus: Massive global data center study, Trump's fake oversight EO, accelerating surveillance of data center opposition, action opportunities, y más.
At the first international conference of its kind, almost 60 nations shared ideas, exchanged best practices, and discussed the hurdles they face in their effort to end their dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
Rapid shifts from extreme drought to deadly floods is a feature, not a bug, in our new fossil-fuels modified climate. Here's what you need to know.
SB4 would allow Texas to single-handedly take on federal immigration enforcement duties.
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