Texas House Members Discuss Flood-Related Bills Despite Standstill August 6, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Texas House members on a special committee for disaster preparedness met Tuesday to discuss for the first time specific bills...
Kerrville Officials’ Messages Show Lack of Information About Coming Floods August 1, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming” was first published by The...
Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told July 24, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, Hayden Betts, The Texas Tribune and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings....
Texas Public Utility Commission Reports on CenterPoint Energy’s Beryl Response November 26, 2024 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune When Hurricane Beryl swept through southeast Texas on July 8, its damaging 80-mile-per-hour winds took down thousands of trees and...
Oil and Gas Power Lines Suspected of Causing Texas Panhandle Wildfires August 1, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden’s ranch...
Why Texas Mass Power Outages Continue to Happen July 19, 2024 By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune It’s become a familiar cycle: A powerful storm sweeps through a swath of Texas and takes the electric system down...
Texas Electricity Demand Could Nearly Double in Six Years – ERCOT June 20, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune and Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune The state’s main electric grid operator has sharply increased its prediction for how much power demand will increase in coming...
These Texans Aren’t Taking Buyouts Despite Repeated Floods May 21, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune HARRIS COUNTY — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom...
Texas Utility Rules Didn’t Prevent Panhandle Wildfires March 8, 2024 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Before it burned to a pile of ashes, Melanie McQuiddy’s house on the outskirts of Canadian was her family’s home...