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2 weeks ago | 
sanangelolive.com | Lucas Banda |Carlos Ramos
By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas TribuneApril 8, 2025"Renewable energy companies face little regulation in Texas. A state lawmaker wants to change that." was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
texastribune.org | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandro Serrano |Berenice Garcia |Carlos Ramos |Joshua Fechter
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In Texas, undocumented people have built apartment complexes and skyscrapers that changed skylines. They have picked fruits and vegetable in fields, cooked in restaurant kitchens, cleaned hospitals and started small businesses. They have become stitched into communities from El Paso to Beaumont.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Carlos Ramos
State Rep. Brooks Landgraf, R-Odessa, wants to spend millions of tax dollars collected from oil and gas companies to help clean up West Texas after years of oil and gas production. (Credit: Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. ODESSA — Cal Hendrick, an insurance attorney pledging to return the City Council’s attention to everyday issues, defeated Javier Joven in this West Texas city’s mayoral race. “I told people I had a vision. I have a job to do,” Hendrick said.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Unable to keep up with the growing number of leaking and erupting wells in the state’s oil fields, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, has asked lawmakers for an additional $100 million in emergency funding — which would be equal to about 44% of the agency’s entire two-year budget.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
The most important Texas news,sent weekday mornings. Key coverage Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. FORT STOCKTON — Zachary Swick plucked a pecan from one of the 78,000 trees at a sprawling West Texas farm — a rare sight in the desert known for oil rigs and pump jacks.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. ODESSA — A Houston-based energy company has sealed a hemorrhaging well in West Texas 19 days after it exploded, sending a torrent of water and other chemicals dozens of feet into the air. The company, Kinder Morgan, said that workers are no longer detecting emissions of hydrogen sulfide, a toxic and deadly gas.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Carlos Ramos
A West Texas well that exploded has been sealed, cleanup will take monthsAn oil well blowout shoots a mixture of oil, water, and gas over 100 feet in the air west of Toyah on Oct. 4. The well was sealed on Monday. Credit: Justin Hamel courtesy of DeSmogODESSA — A Houston-based energy company has sealed a hemorrhaging well in West Texas 19 days after it exploded, sending a torrent of water and other chemicals dozens of feet into the air.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
texastribune.org | Carlos Ramos |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. TOYAH — After a restless night of sleep, Alida Machuca texted her neighbor, searching for answers. The air around her house in this West Texas town stunk of rotten eggs. “Last night, about 1 a.m., it was so bad we couldn’t sleep,” she said.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Carlos Ramos
The largest carbon capture project in the U.S. could be in West Texas. Do residents want it? ODESSA — West Texans will have their say this week regarding a proposed carbon dioxide injection site when the Enviornmental Protection Agency holds a series of public meetings in Ector County. The proposed project — which has been under review for the last two years — would be the largest of its kind in the United States.
