Texas Got Early Warnings About Costly Grid Policy, Records Show February 7, 2024 By Rachel Adams-Heard and Naureen S. Malik Texas grid officials received repeated warnings last summer that their efforts to shore up the state’s increasingly strained electric grid...
Texas Gas Market Gets New Calls for Transparency Two Years After Winter Storm Uri March 10, 2023 By Rachel Adams-Heard Texas’s notoriously opaque natural gas market is getting fresh calls for transparency and oversight, two years after the 2021 winter...
In Texas’s Black-Swan Blackout, Everything Went Wrong at Once February 17, 2021 By Rachel Adams-Heard, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse The finger-pointing began immediately: It was the frozen wind turbines that foolishly replaced traditional sources. No, fossil fuels were at...
Houston Skies May Darken Again as Tank Farm Disaster-Site Teardown Begins June 20, 2019 By Rachel Adams-Heard and Joe Carroll The company behind the four-day chemical blaze that cast a black plume over Houston earlier this year is preparing to...
Houston Channel Still Closed as Chemical Fire Cleanup Continues; Texas Sues ITC March 24, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Rachel Adams-Heard Vessels will be allowed to enter a tributary to the Houston Ship Channel this morning, a workaround allowing some shipping...
Houston-Area Petrochemical Blaze Probe Weighed by Federal Investigators March 21, 2019 By Rachel Adams-Heard and Ben Foldy Federal and local investigators are weighing a probe of the Houston chemical blaze as hazardous compounds waft near the burned-out...
Duke Downplays Threat From Coal-Ash Spill in Carolina Storm September 17, 2018 By Rachel Adams-Heard, Mark Niquette and Taylor Riggs Duke Energy Corp. is confident most of the coal ash that breached a North Carolina landfill was contained at the...
Carolinians Must Wait for Flood Waters to Recede to Assess Florence’s Damage September 17, 2018 By Mark Niquette, Rachel Adams-Heard and Olivia Carville Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, 9:55 am — Record-setting, still-rising floods covering much of eastern North Carolina are preventing companies, regulators...
Gas Company Hit Over Response to Massachusetts Explosions; New Leak Found September 17, 2018 By Ryan Collins, Rachel Adams-Heard, Naureen S. Malik and Brian Eckhouse A new natural gas leak was discovered in the Boston area just two days after a series of pipeline explosions...
Florence’s Winds Slow But Serious Floods Continue; Death Count Rising September 16, 2018 By Mark Niquette, Rachel Adams-Heard and Olivia Carville Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, 1:57 pm —The still-potent remnants of Hurricane Florence marched through the Carolinas on Sunday and as...