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Texas Grid Manager, Electricity Transmission Company Hit with Lawsuit for Ignoring Warnings About Grid, Electricity Infrastructure Weaknesses Suit claims ERCOT, AEP responsible for property damage, business interruptions News provided by Share this article Share this article CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas electricity grid manager ERCOT and electricity transmission company American Electric Power Company (NASDAQ: AEP) consciously ignored repeated warnings about weakne...

A Corpus Christi resident filed suit against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on Friday, alleging the power grid operator should be held liable after failing to adequately prepare for winter conditions that left state residents without power in recent days.

His lawsuit charges that ERCOT failed to maintain and winterize their infrastructure for the anticipated spike in energy use this past week.

Article content (Bloomberg) — The operator of the power grid in Texas was hit with a second lawsuit in as many days over power outages that left millions of residents without heat and some without water in the midst of this week’s bitter cold wave.Ercot, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, failed to properly weatherize the state’s electric infrastructure despite a history of cold-weather power outages, according to Fears Nachawati, a Dallas-based law firm which said it filed the la...

pixabay BELLEVILLE — A former crop duster is suing Chevron and others alleging his exposure to the herbicide paraquat led to his Parkinsons disease.  Michael Kearns and Jean Kearns filed a complaint Dec. 21 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, Syngenta AG, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Growmark Inc., alleging strict product liability, negligence, violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Decep...