The issue of winter storms and their impact on the power grid in Texas is taken so seriously that Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the matter this week. On Thursday, severe weather was forecasted in the state and Abbott vowed the state was “ready to swiftly respond with emergency resources.” With last year’s winter storm …
November 30, 2023 archive
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** Occidental Petroleum is one of the finalists in the auction for CrownRock, an energy producer in the west Texas area of the Permian basin, with a bid of more than $10 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. ** The U.S. Coast Guard expands its search for the source of last month’s …
Study claims Texas coal-fired power plants led to thousands of deaths
Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin were part of a study that contends coal-fired power plants in the U.S. caused more than 103,000 deaths in the nation since 1999. Power plants in Texas resulted in a reported 27,000 deaths. Their research concluded that coal electricity-generating emissions caused nearly 460,000 deaths from 1999 …
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