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Averting crisis: Path to weatherize Texas power plants and some gas wells set under compromise bill The Legislature’s biggest answer yet to weaknesses exposed by winter storm selectively weatherizes gas infrastructure, creates outage alerts and tightens coordination. A compromise bill unveiled by Texas House leaders on Tuesday would respond to February's electricity crisis by, among other things, weatherizing power plants – and, selectively, natural gas infrastructure. The bill also would create outage alerts and require grid managers and utility regulators to practice for emergencies.(Sm...

Houston — Texas lawmakers had on May 7 more than 30 bills pending, designed to address the deadly mid-February winter storm that left about 4 million customers without electricity for various periods across four days, and state regulators are awaiting lawmakers' decisions before advancing eight storm-related projects. Not registered? Most of the bills pending in the Texas Legislature can be placed in eight categories: Six bills provide some form of securitization -- i.e., bond issuance -- for the financial impact on electric or gas customers or suppliers. Six bills require the esta...

A mobile home park is covered with snow as a massive winter storm engulfed Texas, causing widespread power and water outages across the state in February. The Texas Legislature is considering several bills aimed at preventing power outages in the future. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House on Monday gave initial approval to a series of bills aimed at preventing another massive power failure, including one that would require state officia...

President Trump’s failure to release a detailed plan showing the specific borders of a Palestinian Arab State incorporating Gaza and about 70% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) - before he leaves office at midday on January 20, 2021—will sink the only two-state solution that has any possibility of being implemented in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). President-elect Biden seems set to support the failed two-state solution propagated by the United Nations for the last 25 years—which is unacceptable to Israel. When releasing his compre...