Texas-based Fox Tank Company opens local manufacturing facility

The Coshocton facility will manufacture a new pipeline cleaning device. COSHOCTON − A company that originally came to the area for an auction has opened the doors to a new manufacturing plant. In June, Fox Tank, a Texas-based company, announced it...

Texan firm’s equipment to help tie in additional wells at US field

Houston-based subsea energy equipment and services specialist KOIL Energy Solutions has secured a contract to deliver subsea distribution equipment for a project in the Gulf of America (the U.S. Gulf of Mexico), operated by an “international...

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Some Texas community colleges have ordered thorough course reviews and put restrictions on what faculty can teach, with at...

<![CDATA[New Texas Emergency Rules Take Effect: State Bans Consumable Hemp Sales to Under 21]]>

In a recent press release, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) disclosed the implementation of emergency rules (Rule §300.701 and Rule §300.702) which mandated that licensed and registered consumable hemp product businesses would...

A North Texas community will vote to form a city in an effort to quiet down a crypto mine

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. HOOD COUNTY — Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch,...

South Texas students have a new chance to taste the race for space

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. BROWNSVILLE — Every few months, thousands of people gather on nearby...

KOIL Energy to Supply Subsea Equipment for Gulf of America Project

Oct 9, 2025 (Credit: KOIL Energy) U.S subsea equipment and services provider for oil and gas sector KOIL Energy has secured a contract to deliver subsea distribution equipment for a project in the Gulf of America. As part of the contract, KOIL...

Real Estate & Construction briefs page: Oct. 9

Industry employment down year over year in Washington Between August 2024 and August 2025, 28 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs, 19 states shed jobs — including 11,100 jobs lost in Washington state — and employment...

Carnelian Energy Capital Closes Canada-Focused Fund at $600 Million Hard Cap in Oversubscribed, Single Closing

HOUSTON, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Carnelian Energy Capital Management, L.P. (Carnelian) today announced the oversubscribed, single closing of Carnelian Acquisition and Development, L.P. (CAD), at the fund’s hard cap of $600 million in...

DOE revives Savannah River Site plutonium production for nuclear warheads

The Department of Energy is accelerating construction of the new facility, aiming to produce 50 plutonium pits annually by 2030. While production ramps up, concerns remain about existing radioactive waste and the diversion of funds from cleanup...

A look at production inside Fox Tank's local facility

Fox Tank recently opened a new facility in Coshocton. The Texas-based company makes storage vessels and other items for the oil and gas industry. There are 22 workers at the site now with plans to hire additional employees as part of its $7.9...

US oil production growth is stalling

Video game designers use a concept called “coyote time”: allowing characters to walk on air for a short time before gravity asserts itself and they fall to earth. This year, it has felt like the US oil industry has been operating on coyote time....

Leaked list shows Trump administration considering $15 billion in additional clean energy cuts

Days after the Trump administration made headlines for canceling nearly $8 billion in clean energy projects across 16 blue states, the Department of Energy is considering terminating an additional 300 projects totaling more than $15.8 billion,...

Nearly 50-year-old law hamstrings nuclear energy in California 

Nuclear energy has been stymied by Californian law for nearly five decades, hurting the state’s ability to hit its own climate goals and meet growing demand for electricity.The construction of nuclear energy projects, such as power plants, has...

East Texas State Fair economic impact report

Posted/updated on: October 9, 2025 at 5:24 am SMITH COUNTY — Michael Stoltz, Chairman of the East Texas State Fair Board, gave the Commissioners Court an estimated economic impact the nearly two-week event had on the area. For the second year at...

Mews opens commercial centre in Texas

Hospitality technology company Mews has established a new commercial centre in Dallas, Texas, to support the company’s growing operations in the US. The facility will accommodate part of Mews’ inside sales workforce, including sales and business...

‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone

A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes...

Geothermal energy gains ground globally as clean power source

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. As energy use...

ODOT warns of OU-Texas fan traffic on I-35

The already busy road between Oklahoma and Texas will get even busier this weekend as OU fans drive down to Dallas for the OU-Texas game at the Cotton Bowl. The 215-mile trip from the OU campus in Norman to the Texas State Fair Park in Dallas...

Cipher Mining Stock Soars 7% After-Hours On Phase 1 Completion Of Mega Mining Data Center

Cipher Mining, Inc. (NASDAQ:CIFR) shares soared in Wednesday's after-hours trading as the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining firm confirmed the completion of the first phase of its ambitious Black Pearl data center. CIFR is poised for a potential...