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This story was originally published in 2011. Why does Texas have its own electric grid? Texas' secessionist inclinations have at least one modern outlet: the electric grid. There are three grids in the Lower 48 states: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection — and Texas. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT does not actually cover all of Texas. El Paso is on another grid, as is the upper Panhandle and a chunk of East Texas. This presumably has to do with the history of various utilit...

Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds....

JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge ordered the state Department of Natural...

Happens in next five to six weeks. we're not worried about this making a u.s. impact. it's going to make things rough around the coast. but then yesterday a new storm formed, tropical storm dorian, 40-mile-per-hour storm at this point. take a look at this. at least the official forecast from the national hurricane center brings this up to hurricane status sometimes around wednesday being close to puerto rico. puerto rico still recovering from a hurricane a year and a half ago and now we have a storm potentially around that area. most of the models are not break this into a major storm at this ...

Been a steady melting of arctic sea ice at a rate of 13% per decade. as the ice melts and the footprint of the polar icecap shrinks, more of the ocean's surface is exposed and thus more heat escapes into the atmosphere. studies show that the arctic is warming faster than any other part of the globe. the authors of a new study have koor lated the increase of ice melt over time with more frequent polar vortex disruption. that dam way up north bursts and thrusts cold air down south to us. one of the study's author told us he believes this will continue and even become more frequent in the future....