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#1 Texas Accuses Allstate-Owned Arity of Data Privacy Violations

Dec 13 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a notice of violation against Allstate-owned Arity, a mobile data company that collects drivers’ information, for breaching the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act...

#2 New Texas Law Eliminates Annual Vehicle Safety Inspections

Dec 27 2024 // Most Texas drivers will no longer be required to have their cars pass an annual safety exam after state lawmakers removed the rule from Texas code.Texas is one of 15 states that mandate annual inspections for noncommercial...

#3 Texas Teacher Killed and Toddlers Injured in Daycare Crash

Dec 23 2024 // SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A teacher at a San Antonio-area day care was killed and another employee and five toddlers were injured when a parent’s car accelerated into another vehicle in the parking lot and both vehicles...

#4 Musk’s Massive Tesla Lithium Plant Hunts for Water in Drought-Hit Texas

Jan 7 2025 // Twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world’s richest man is nearly done building a lithium refinery...

#5 Texas Snow Threatens to Unleash Blackouts and Travel Chaos

Jan 7 2025 // A winter storm is poised to pummel Texas and the US South later this week, putting the region at risk of blackouts and travel mayhem.About 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) of snow and ice will fall across southern...

#6 Freight Train Collision in West Texas Kills 2 Union Pacific Employees

Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday.The train derailed around 5 p.m....

#7 Texas Sues Chemical Manufacturers for Deceptive PFAS Marketing

Dec 12 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 against manufacturers 3M and DuPont for misrepresenting the health risks of products made with forever chemicalsThe lawsuit alleges the companies for decades...

#8 Inszone Acquires Texas-Based Roten & Company Insurance

Dec 27 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Roten & Company Insurance, a longstanding family-owned and operated insurance agency based in San Antonio, Texas. This acquisition strengthens Inszone’s...

#9 Texas Contractor Faces $107K Fine for Exposing Workers to Trench Collapse

Dec 26 2024 // A U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Frisco, Texas contractor repeatedly exposed workers to serious hazards by sending them into unprotected trenches without providing a means of escape.The...

#10 Texas Bill Aims to Combat Forever Chemicals in Fertilizers

Dec 23 2024 // Johnson County’s newest state representative, Helen Kerwin, R-Cleburne, filed her first bill Friday targeting an environmental problem that has struck her county: PFAS contamination in sewage sludge-based...

#11 Winter Storm Heading for Texas Grounds Flights and Menaces Grid

Jan 8 2025 // Flight cancellations are already piling up as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts.As of 7:30 a.m. in New York, at least 169 flights...

#12 Inszone Acquires Commercial Insurance of Texas

Dec 11 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition Commercial Insurance of Texas Agency Services, a specialized agency based in Texas. This strategic acquisition strengthens Inszone’s presence in Texas and...

#13 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Texas-Based DMc Insurance Partners

Dec 19 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Howe Insurance Group LLC, dba DMc Insurance Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. DMc Insurance Partners is a personal...

#14 EEOC Sues Texas Pizza Hut Operator for Workplace Discrimination

Dec 16 2024 // Ayvaz Pizza, LLC, doing business as Pizza Hut, which operates more than 350 Pizza Hut restaurants in ten states and multiple locations in the Houston area, violated federal law when it subjected a female employee to...

#15 Texas Economy Will Top France’s Thanks to Trump, Abbott Says

Dec 18 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a new ambition for the Lone Star State: surpassing France as one of the world’s largest economies.Abbott predicted that economic output in Texas would soon exceed that of the struggling...

#16 Inszone Acquires Texas’ Southerland And Associates

Dec 11 2024 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Southerland and Associates, Inc., an agency based in Austin, Texas. The strengthens Inszone’s footprint in Texas, enhancing the company’s ability to...

#17 Deadly Air Show Crash in Texas Caused by Lack of Proper Planning: NTSB

Dec 11 2024 // WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly crash of two vintage military planes at a 2022 air show in Texas was caused by a lack of proper planning to keep aircraft separated and relying instead on a “see-and-avoid...

#18 Earthquakes and Blowouts Undermine Case for Carbon Storage in Texas

Jan 7 2025 // Texas has seen surging interest from companies hoping to bury carbon dioxide in its oilfields, putting the state at the vanguard of a government-subsidized program to fight climate change.But pumping CO2 into the ground...

#19 Tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi Kill 2 and Injure 6

Dec 30 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — A strong storm system threatened to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and...

#20 Federal Court Affirms $14M Penalty Against Exxon for Pollution in Texas

Dec 12 2024 // A federal court on Wednesday affirmed a federal judge’s 2021 ruling imposing a $14.25 million penalty on Exxon Mobil for thousands of violations of the federal Clean Air Act at the company’s refinery and...