Director of Infrastructure and Natural Resources Policy
Jeremy directs Texas 2036's work in the area of infrastructure and natural resources, which includes water, energy, and infrastructure resilience. Before joining Texas 2036 in 2021, he worked for over two decades in the Texas Legislature and in state agencies on water and energy matters.
Water means something to Texans. We live in a hot, dry, often drought-prone state. National headlines from earlier this year about Corpus Christi possibly running out of water imparted a hard lesson that reliable water supplies are not permanently guaranteed here. On top of this, Texas is a growing state with its own economic success…
On Aug. 24, 2026, Director of Infrastructure and Natural Resources Policy Jeremy Mazur testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources on the findings from his report on the Coastal Bend water crisis and recommendations to improve the state and regional water plan process. The following is a written version of the testimony. Good afternoon…
A new report by Texas 2036 provides hard data to support the claim that Texas’ economic growth engine makes for a miracle. Using a quarter of a century of gross domestic product figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the report finds that the state’s economy expanded in unparalleled magnitude, with exceptional velocity, and…
Last month the Texas Water Development Board published the draft 2027 State Water Plan. This is the sixth state water plan since Senate Bill 1 inaugurated the current planning process in 1997. The draft 2027 plan, like each plan published every five years since 2002, reflects the input from the “bottom-up,” regional water planning process. …
Nearly 100 years ago, a state meteorologist famously proclaimed that “Texas is the land of perennial drought, broken by the occasional devastating flood.” While the consequences of drought, and the need to develop water supplies are well understood, the problem and peril of floods is sometimes overlooked. The Hill Country Floods of 2025 provided another…
Last week, the Texas House Committee on Natural Resources held a lengthy hearing on groundwater resources and management. This was the second extensive hearing that the committee held on this subject this legislative interim. There are several reasons why the committee has spent considerable time on groundwater. For starters, the water beneath our feet often…