As Corpus Christi edges closer to possible water restrictions, scrutiny is growing over a nearby cryptomining facility that uses large amounts of water each day. The city has declined to release…

Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX. The company is based in South Texas in ...

The city declined to supply public records on the mine’s water usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.

In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.

The May 2, 2026, election for the Port of Brownsville Navigation District Board of Commissioners is approaching. We, the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, a local Brownsville organization,…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2026 Contact: Bekah Hinojosa, bekah@sotxejn.org at 956-975-6634 Rio Grande Valley Community and Tribe Oppose US Fish & Wildlife Giving Away Habitat to SpaceX The…

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a…

Offshore wind and legal experts question whether Interior has the authority to reimburse the oil giant for canceled leases, especially if it taps taxpayer…

Environmental advocates and residents say the long-proposed refinery threatens air quality and public health in a region already ringed by heavy industry.

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a…

The industrial-grade buoys, already being installed in Brownsville, Texas, are meant to prevent unauthorized crossings. But experts warn the buoys could intensify flooding and change the river’s cours...

Last week's convictions related to a July 4 ICE detention center demonstration raise red flags about the right to protest. “This can happen to you, and if they can do it to you, they will.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 20, 2026 Contact: Bekah Hinojosa, bekah@sotxejn.org at 956-975-6634 Border Communities Oppose Trump’s ‘death-trap’ Border Buoys in the Rio Grande Organizations based…

As climate 'shocks' increasingly puncture wealthier parts of the U.S., they lengthen like a shadow across this borderlands region.

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. Through publicly available information, interviews, and in-person observation, the Observer has identified c...

For months, border communities have denounced DHS’s plans to eventually install more than 500 miles of barrier bouys in the Rio Grande.

The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...

Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to leap at Trump’s invitation to join his war on the climate and the internatio...

Blasts, aircraft and black smoke could be seen across Caracas overnight.

I’ve spent six years writing about environmental justice. The uncomfortable truth is that we’re not all in it together – but people power is reshaping the fight

Groups ask FERC to better evaluate the air pollution impacts of the TX project

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There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.

My name is Kit O’Connell. I’ll be covering queer and trans life in Texas for Big & Bright — The Barbed Wire’s first underwritten vertical.