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Texas Is Running Out of Water — And Corpus Christi Is the First Warning Sign

Texas is staring down a water crisis, and Corpus Christi is ground zero — where politicians cater to global corporations while billionaires look to cash in on scarcity.

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Running Out: Texas’ Water Crisis — And the Path Forward

From the Rio Grande to Lake Travis, from the Ogallala Aquifer to the Red River, Texas’ water supply is under duress. The state's rapidly expanding population, deteriorating infrastructure, and warming climate threaten its water supply — and by extension, its economy and way of life. The state's regional diversity and patchwork of governments complicate matters further.

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Entergy Wins Approval for $2.4 Billion Houston-Area Power Plants — But with Strings Attached

Entergy Texas will be allowed to charge its customers no more than $2.4 billion for its controversial plan to build two natural gas power plants in the Houston area to keep pace with the region’s growth, state regulators decided Thursday.

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Eastman’s ‘Fall Turnaround’ Brings 1,300 More Workers to Longview Area

The 2025 “fall turnaround,” a major maintenance project at Eastman Chemical Co., is bringing more than 1,000 people to the Longview area for the next few months. The city announced that more than 1,300 contractor employees from 25-30 companies will be in the community while the work is taking place.

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Northwestern Researchers Develop Catalyst for No-Sort Plastic Recycling

Scientists at Northwestern University say they have developed a new catalyst that could eliminate one of the biggest hurdles in plastics recycling: the need to sort waste by resin type.

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Trump Administration Report Urges Review of Microplastics, PFAS In Children's Health Strategy

President Donald Trump's administration's Make America Healthy Again Commission released a report Sept. 9 outlining a strategy to improve children's health, calling for policy changes and new evaluations of risks and exposures from microplastics, PFAS and food additives.

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Backers Acknowledge Chemical Recycling Technology Needs Improvement

In a rare public debate with environmentalists, supporters of controversial chemical recycling processes conceded the most prominent of the technologies -- which the plastics industry has touted as a solution to the growing plastic pollution crisis -- must be improved to become more viable for large-scale recycling.

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America Can’t Afford Chemical Security Gaps

The attacks of September 11, 2001, reshaped how America thinks about security. Since then, we’ve strengthened counterterrorism measures—but the threat environment hasn’t stood still. Cyber intrusions, unauthorized drone flights over critical infrastructure, and misuse of artificial intelligence are creating new vulnerabilities that adversaries can exploit in ways we are only beginning to understand.

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US Tariffs Worsen Petrochemical Sector Challenges, Executives Warn

U.S. tariffs are increasingly pressuring the already challenged petrochemicals sector, with China, the top producer, shifting its exports to Asia, industry executives said at a conference in Singapore on Tuesday.

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Trump Adds PET Resin to ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs

US President Donald Trump has expanded tariffs to include PET resin as of Sept. 8, according to a new executive order. The move drew comment from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) because of its expected impact on imported resin, but added uncertainty to the market.

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