Texas

Community members grieve the lives lost to flooding in Texas' Hill Country at a vigil.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

August 4, 2025

Despite Clear Preferences from Texas Hill Flood Survivors, Uncertainty Looms

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

A tourist catches her breath after climbing the steps at the Lincoln Memorial during a heatwave.

Nathan Howard/Getty Images

July 24, 2025

What We’re Watching: Climate and Political Whiplash

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

US Air Force/Jonathan R. Mallard

July 17, 2025

The Terrible Texas Flood Tragedy Made Worse by Trump Administration’s Dysfunctional FEMA Response

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

May 21, 2025

Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Trump’s Science Cuts Could Threaten Our Response.

Carly Phillips
Research Scientist

Sean Rayford/Getty Images

March 4, 2025

US South’s March Wildfires Signal Risks of a Dangerous Spring Fire Season

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

The Texas State Capitol

Franky Magana/Unsplash

September 3, 2024

Texas’ Mass Voter Purge Highlights a National Strategy of Suppression

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

Woman opening empty refrigerator after Hurricane Beryl knocks out power to region.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

August 2, 2024

Hurricane Beryl’s Towering Texas Grid Impacts and Price Tag Highlight Massive Injustices

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

photo of Dania Davy smiling for the camera, with woods and filtered sunlight in the background

October 12, 2023

Building a Future for Black Farmers: An Interview with Legal Expert Dãnia Davy

Archie Creech
Outreach Coordinator

photo of Dr. Jennie Stephens, smiling at the camera, standing at the base of some stairs with woods in the background

Catie Cleveland/College of Charleston

October 4, 2023

Fighting to Help Black People—and Others—Keep Their Land

Guest Commentary

photo of two Black farmers, one male and one female, standing side by side looking out at their farm, with woods in the background

Bill Cotter/UCS

September 21, 2023

Heirs’ Property: The Legal Issue That Has Cost Black Farmers $326 Billion

Archie Creech
Outreach Coordinator

February 6, 2023

Can Solar, Storage and Efficiency Help Us Survive Winters Like This?

Maria Chavez
Energy Analyst

Fast Electric Vehicle charging stations along I-95 in Maryland.

Earth and Main/Flickr

August 1, 2022

What Are States Planning To Do With Federal EV Charging Funds?

Samantha Houston
Senior Vehicles Analyst

Anne Nygard/Unsplash

March 11, 2022

EPA Rejects Industry Attempt to Downplay Ethylene Oxide Harms

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

U.S. Coast Guard

January 26, 2022

What I Said—and Wish I’d Had a Chance to Say—When I Testified on Future Oil and Gas Drilling in Gulf of Mexico

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

September 20, 2021

Houston We Have a Problem: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Harmful Air Pollution from Industrial Fires

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

February 19, 2021

The Polar Vortex Has Killed 24 in Texas So Far. Who’s to Blame?

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

February 18, 2021

Power Outages in Texas and California Have Less in Common than You Think

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

May 10, 2019

How Big is Gridlock in our Electric Grid?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

LadyDragonflyCC/Flickr

April 9, 2019

Fires in Texas Spark Interest in Chemical Safety

Anthony Gutierrez
Former Contributor

Yvette Arellano/TEJAS

October 27, 2017

Spectrum of Harm: Ripple Effects of Trump's Macabre Environmental Policies

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

Oil extraction in a cotton field, Andrews TX. Photo: Wikimedia

December 6, 2016

Texas Is the Best. And Worst. #1 in Both Wind Energy and Carbon Pollution.

Katharine Hayhoe
Former Contributor

June 13, 2016

Solar Power Plants are the Future of Texas Power. Every Time.

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

March 6, 2015

Can Republican Politicians Change Their Tune on Climate and Energy?

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

May 2, 2014

How Much Did Sea Levels Rise Over the Past 50 Years? A Lot If You Live on the U.S. Gulf or East Coasts

Brenda Ekwurzel
Former Staff