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This week, all eyes have been on Texas. An unprecedented winter storm left 4 million people without power across the state, and put nearly half of all

How a Winter Storm Tested Texas’ Go-It-Alone Attitude Texans have long prided themselves on bucking federal oversight and standing apart from the rest of the country. But this week revealed the risk that comes with that independence. AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth Link Copied Renuka Rayasam covers Texas politics, policy and health care for POLITICO. EL PASO — More than 4 million people across Texas lost power on Monday in the middle of a deadly winter snowstorm. In Austin, my father-in-law spen...

What’s happening in Texas is not an indicator that renewable energy is less reliable—it’s a signal that our infrastructure is frighteningly unprepared for extreme weather.

Behind the power crisis in petroleum centre Texas published : 18 Feb 2021 at 08:45 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (left) and Harris County Sherriff Ed Gonzales (2nd left) take a tour of the George R. Brown Center which is being used as a warming shelter on February 17, 2021 in Houston, Texas. A winter storm has caused rolling black-outs through out the Houston and the surrounding areas for the past 48 hours. Millions of Americans were struggling without...

NASA’s Perseverance lands on Mars while Tucker Carlson and Fox News go on a false, anti-science rant about Texas windmills and the state's energy failure.

Behind the power crisis in petroleum center Texas

Failures in renewable-energy generation accounted for only a small percentage of the state’s recent power outages.

Instead of speaking to Texans, the governor went on Fox News and played politics.

Perry, Texas governor between 2000 and 2015, once praised his states the progress in developing wind energy.

By Alex Samuels Texas Tribune Feb 17, 2021 First Texans lost their power. Now, they’re losing their potable water. After enduring multiple days of freezing temperatures and Texans dripping faucets to prevent frozen pipes from bursting, cities across the state warned residents on Wednesday that water levels are dangerously low and may be unsafe to drink. They’re asking Texans to boil tap water for drinking, cooking, brushing their teeth and for making ice — as resident...