Energy & Environment

TxDOT's $674 million plan to reshape the Y in Oak Hill is on the verge of breaking ground as nearby residents keep fighting to narrow the project's scope.

Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, is a potent neurotoxin. In 2019 it killed several dogs in Lady Bird Lake. It has since been detected in other lakes and, most recently, killed two dogs in Lake Travis last winter.

After February's deadly power outages, new legislation would mandate winterizing parts of the state's energy system. But lawmakers took a pass on major market reforms to make the grid more resilient.

Rainfall totals in Austin last month varied sharply depending on where you were standing. Camp Mabry, Austin's main weather station, saw little more than 7 inches of rain. Austin's airport, meanwhile, recorded a total slightly above 12 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Using a method known as "excess fatalities," BuzzFeed's data analysis found that the number of people who died in Texas during and after the winter storm was at least three times higher than during ordinary circumstances.

Two pairs of whooping cranes nested on private land in Jefferson and Chambers counties this year. It’s believed to be the first time the endangered birds have nested in Texas since the 1800s.

Texas lawmakers are considering bills to pay back banks, natural gas suppliers and power generators that sold energy at the height of the freeze in February. But some worry the solution they’ve found could reward negligence and criminality.

The "Super Flower Blood Moon" is happening early Wednesday morning, as a supermoon coincides with a full lunar eclipse. Here's how to see it.

Provisions within Senate Bill 3 touch on everything from regulating some retail electricity plans to establishing an energy emergency alert system. But the most contentious proposals deal with which parts of the state’s power infrastructure will need to “winterize.”

The forecast calls for 3 to 5 major hurricanes. The agency also said it's revising upwards what counts as the "normal" number of storms in a season.