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I found a handful of decisions that didn’t necessarily make headlines in Texas’...

Taylor: Do we need a Green Bank to speed up transition to clean energy? June 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island. A Green Bank, at its best, is a public-sector, or quasi-public, financial nudge to accelerate and expand private-sector investment in innovative, climate-friendly energy companies.Eric Thayer /Bloomberg News file photo Let’s posit for a moment that we want renewable energy, but the technology does not...

Many state lawmakers who scrutinized the Chapter 313 program didn’t like what they...

Under the guise of economic development, tax incentive program brings questionable...

Commentary: Oil and gas can drive innovation, recovery Todd Staples, For the Express-News Feb. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Alternative energy sources depend on Texas oil and natural gas, too, not just to provide backup but also for their very composition.Jacob Ford /Odessa American Oil and natural gas are essential and irreplaceable to our lives, economy and environmental progress. Every Texan should be alarmed by efforts to undermine the oil and natural gas industry, as these misguided at...

Texas lawmakers likely to extend costly, controversial tax break FacebookTwitterEmail The 110-megawatt, Alamo 6 solar farm in Iraan in West Texas was completed in 2015 to provide renewable power to the city of San Antonio. The solar farm’s developers received a 313 tax limitation, which reduced the tax bill on the project by roughly $2 million annually./OCI Solar Power A controversial Texas tax law criticized as a giveaway to large companies is set to expire after 2022, but state lawmakers ap...