Few companies in the American energy sector can point to a history as steady and deliberate as Gulf Coast Western. Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1970 by Thomas H. Fleeger, the firm began with a clear focus on acquiring and developing domestic oil and gas resources. Over the following decades, it expanded from a regional […]
Day: June 10, 2026
Colcom Foundation Connects Sprawl and Extinction to Population Totals
Urban sprawl is often treated as a planning problem or a housing market failure. The Colcom Foundation frames it differently as an ecological consequence of a growing population that needs to put land to use. The foundation’s historical data on land conversion makes the progression clear, and it uses that data to argue that sprawl […]