Drought has drained Lake Whitney close to a 40-year low ... That’s enough energy to power 21,500 Texas homes during mild weather or about 8,600 homes during hot weather.

Ellen Troxclair (R-Burnet), would have placed added restrictions on the development of rock crushers in Texas. The bill aimed to prevent plants from being built within four miles of a lake owned ...

MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for ...