Governor Greg Abbott has announced a new application category opening for the Texas Travel Industry Recovery Grant (TTIR) program through the Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism, beginning February [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Plan 15), which lays out how the Agency will work to protect the nation’s waterways by following [...]
Comptroller Glenn Hegar has released the January issue of Fiscal Notes, a periodical that features analysis concerning state finances and original research by subject-matter experts in the Comptroller’s office. In [...]
The State Auditor’s Office (SAO) State Classification Team has published workforce summaries for state agencies and higher education institutions. The individual summaries provide information regarding employee turnover, full-time equivalent (FTE) [...]
The PUC met on January 26th to distributed energy resources cost recovery, ERCOT input on wholesale electric market design, CY2023 reports from ERCOT, and a regular agenda. The full agenda [...]
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has released the Texas Senate Committee Assignments for the 88th Legislature. See below for the full list and related member press releases. Senator Brandon Creighton, SD [...]
PUC commissioners met January 19th for most of the day to discuss market design changes. Evident from early in the meeting was all five commissioners’ support for some variation of [...]
At its open meeting on January 18, 2023, the Railroad Commission (RRC) adopted two rulemakings for Chapter 13 and Chapter 14, the CNG and LNG rules, to revise certain provisions [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced opportunities for public input on new programs focused on lower carbon construction materials made possible via the Inflation Reduction Act. EPA will [...]
On January 19th, The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) approved financial assistance totaling $8,400,859 for wastewater and flood projects, including $4,100,000 to the City of Sugar Land (Fort Bend County) [...]