Russell Gold

The first thing I notice on entering the store is the smell. It is an earthy sandalwood mixed with some type of citrus, perhaps sour lemon. It tells me I am in the right place, because I am here to buy cannabis. On my left sits a smoking lounge with four booths facing large windows that look out on an upscale South Austin shopping center. To my right, behind a glass window, is a demonstration grow room—more for show than large-scale cultivation. Straight ahead, on the back wall, a large lacquere…

QuailGuard is the first publicly available FDA-approved medication for wild animals.

Our state is far too reliant on expensive, reactive, post-crisis measures that leave Texans sweating in the dark. It’s time we prioritized prevention.

As Texas’s population booms and the state grows hotter and drier, it’s more important than ever to understand: Who’s wasting our water? Without water, there’s no fracking. Without fracking, there’s no twenty-first-century Texas oil boom. Water’s role is evident in the full name of the process—hydraulic fracturing. Drillers pump water, laced with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to crack open the ancient rocks of the Permian Basin, releasing trapped fossil fuels from their primordia…

Were the leases for generators unfairly awarded because of an unspecified personal connection between the utility’s leader and a Life Cycle Power employee?

Thanks to its fracking expertise, the city is playing a big part in the future of the very low-carbon power source.

An ingenious Texan’s invention may soon bring extensive mining of the metal—vital for our battery-powered future—to the northeast corner of the state.

The pro-fracking video oversimplifies a nuanced debate over a technology that—love it or hate it—boasts a promising future.

The powerful veteran legislator wrote four bills that benefitted electricity monopoly Oncor at the expense of its ratepayers. Meanwhile, Oncor paid at least $31 million to a company King cofounded.

Occidental Petroleum’s $1.3 billion carbon removal project in West Texas aims to prove the technology can make a difference.