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  • Texas May Put Restraints on New Big Businesses Hoping to Tap into the Energy Grid

    Texas will need a lot more energy in the future. According to ERCOT, the state’s energy demand may double in six years.

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  • U.S. Senate Committee Advances Kelly's Critical Minerals Bill

    A bill seeking to improve America’s mineral supply chain is heading to the U.S. Senate floor. The Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025, introduced by Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, would remove disparities between separate critical materials lists from the Department of Energy and Department of Interior. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the bill last week.

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  • How California’s Farmers Can Recharge the Aquifers They’ve Drained

    Agriculture requires a lot of water. In the drought-stricken Central Valley, researchers have found a win-win for growers.

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  • Flood Risk Increasing in Pacific Northwest

    The next great earthquake isn’t the only threat to the Pacific Northwest. A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, impacting thousands of residents and properties in northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

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  • Protecting Florida’s Water Infrastructure from Cyber Threats

    INL and the state of Florida are collaborating on an innovative cybersecurity initiative aimed at protecting Florida’s water infrastructure from cyber threats.

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  • Texas May Study the Impact of Immigration Again, but Focus Only on Costs

    The only time the state conducted such an assessment two decades ago, it found that undocumented Texans contributed more to the state’s economy than they cost the state.

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  • Wind and Solar Power Opponents Make Headway in State Legislatures

    In recent years, in Texas and other states, some Republicans have soured on renewable energy. Texas has loosened its political embrace of alternative energy, and for the second legislative session in a row, many Texas lawmakers are trying to derail or curb future renewable energy projects.

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  • Store, Harvest, Fix: How Texas Can Save Its Water Supply

    State lawmakers are poised to devote billions to save the state’s water supply. These are some of the ways the state could spend the money.

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  • “Water Is the New Oil: As Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifer Pipeline Plans

    Fast-growing Georgetown plans to pump 89 million gallons a day from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer but the project is being fought by Bryan, College Station and Texas A&M University, which depend on the same water.

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  • After COVID, Texas Is Less Prepared for the Next Pandemic

    Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.

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  • With Crumbling Public Health Infrastructure, Rural Texas Scrambles to Respond to Measles

    The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between providers makes testing people and transporting samples difficult.

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  • U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Texas Nuclear Waste Disposal Case

    The case could establish the nation’s first independent repository for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas, despite the objections of state leaders.

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  • Trump Says He’s Sending Water to LA. It’s Actually Going to Megafarms.

    The president’s executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to fight wildfires.

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  • Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States

    Local governments are common victims of cyberattack, with economic damage often extending to the state and federal levels. Scholars aggregate threats to thousands of county governments to draw conclusions.

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  • A Michigan Nuclear Plant Is Slated to Restart, but Trump Could Complicate Things

    The owners of a shuttered nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Michigan are still banking on its historic reopening later this year, despite the confusion of President Donald Trump’s first days.

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  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
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