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By Stephanie Kelly, Peter Szekely and Jennifer Hiller HOUSTON (Reuters) - In Spring, Texas, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Houston, Akilah Scott-Amos...

Climate lessons from Texas frozen power outages An off-course polar vortex meandered toward the Mexican border, bringing with it frigid Arctic air rarely seen as far south as Texas. Frozen equipment rendered power generation systems in the state inoperable, forcing grid operators to begin rolling blackouts to customers then left to fend for themselves in the glacial weather. The year was 2021. And 2011. And 1989. These same scenes have played out before across the Lone Star State, and experts...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021  Oil prices were off a bit in early trading on Tuesday, but are nonetheless trading close to more than one-year highs after soaring on Monday. The price hike comes shortly after Goldman Sachs forecast that oil prices would climb into the $70s over the next few months and after it became clear that U.S. oil production and refineries will take a bit of time to resume their normal level of output after the Texas Freeze knocked out oil refineries and oil production. Texa...

2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #8 Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Exclusive:  Prof Sir Robert Watson says backing of Cumbrian mine refutes claims of climate leadership Prof Sir Robert Watson has led the UN’s scientific organisations for climate and biodiversity. Photograph: Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP/Getty Images One of ...

Climate change, COVID, and jobs are together splitting Americans by class more profoundly than Americans are split by politics. The white working class is taking as much of a beating as most Black and Latino people.

Small government is no match for a crisis born of the state’s twin addictions to market fixes and fossil fuels.

The Lone Star State is aptly named. If you’re not part of the Republican oil elite with Cruz and Abbott, you’re on your own

Texas has long represented a wild west individualism that elevates personal freedom – this week, the freedom to freeze – above all else. The state’s prevailing social Darwinism was expressed most succinctly by the mayor of Colorado City, who accused his constituents – trapped in near sub-zero temperatures and complaining about lack of heat, electricity and drinkable water – of being the “lazy” products of a “socialist government”, adding “I’m...

In this weekends Hot Clicks: Looking at some weird NCAA tournament résumés, dissecting Jerry Joness vampiric nature and more.

Despite the tragic nature of what’s transpiring in Texas, which has left many of the state’s residents reeling, it appears billionaire Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is experiencing a financial windfall.