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StateImpact Texas | Energy and Environment Reporting for Texas

Featuring data, explanation and analysis about energy and the environment issues in Texas, including energy policy, oil and gas industries and climate issues like the drought.

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Obama Rejected Keystone XL, But Crude Flows Through Southern Part of Project

President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline provoked cheers from environmental groups, boos from rival politicians and a little bit of head scratching in the state of Texas. “Technically,

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Here’s Why the U.S. Banned Crude Oil Exports

It might sound surprising that the U.S. does not allow the export of one of its most valuable and plentiful natural resources — but in the case of crude oil, it's true. A lot of Texas politicians wou

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Texas Railroad Commission Refutes Study Linking Quakes to Oil and Gas Industry

An inquiry by the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas has found that oil and gas activity did not likely cause a swarm of earthquakes around the north Texas towns of Azle and Reno

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What’s in my topic model? Or: Clustering topics by semantic similarity

For the last year or so, one my major interests has been topic modeling and applying it to a variety of French literary texts. I have been doing this as part of an exploration of the computational ana

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In Some Texas Oil Towns, This ‘Downturn’ Feels More Like a ‘Bust’

Even before oil prices plummeted last year, the town of Alice, Texas was feeling the paincaused by a restless oil industry. Some oilfield service companies had moved operations from Alice, located nea

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Better Batteries Might Hold Enough To Power Your Neighborhood

One of the nation’s leading researchers who’s trying to make batteries better is James Tour and his colleagues at Rice University. “Everybody’s investing billions. If you say millions they scoff at y

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NASA Satellite Will Improve Drought Forcasting With a Little Help From Texas

A satellite launched by NASA over the weekend could help people around the world tackle the challenges of drought. Researchers at the University of Texas will play a part in that mission that could al