Scientists Take on Severe Storms to Study Hail, Costliest Weather Danger June 6, 2025 By Seth Borenstein, Carolyn Kaster and Brittany Peterson As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving...
Storm Damage Costs Are Often a Mystery. That’s a Problem for Understanding Risk June 6, 2025 By John Nielsen-Gammon On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail...
Deadly Flash Flooding Claims Life in Dallas As Severe Weather Hits Central U.S. June 5, 2025 By Jamie Stengle and Steve Karnowski One person has died after severe weather tore through parts of the central U.S., including heavy rain in Dallas, a...
BlackRock Escapes Texas Oil-Boycott List After ESG Retreat June 5, 2025 By Danielle Moran BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental...
AI’s Need for Power Spurs Return of Dirty Gas Turbines June 5, 2025 By Naureen S. Malik and Josh Saul If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity...
Colossal Cloud of Sahara Dust en Route to Texas, Florida June 4, 2025 By Danica Coto A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event...
Texas Wants to Kill a Cannabis Boom It Accidentally Helped Stoke June 4, 2025 By Joe Lovinger Texas is on the cusp of banning all recreational THC products after lawmakers passed a bill to reverse the unintended...
Stonetrust Insurance Credit Ratings Unchanged Amid Acquisition of Southern Vanguard June 3, 2025 AM Best said that the Credit Ratings (ratings) of Southern Vanguard Insurance Company (Southern Vanguard) (Austin, Texas) and the members...
Texas Lawmakers Pass Legislation to Improve Wildfire Preparedness June 3, 2025 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune Texas lawmakers approved a series of bills this year that aim to better prepare Texas for wildfires and to mitigate...
Doritos, M&Ms Could Be Forced to Include Warning Labels in Texas June 3, 2025 A Texas bill on the verge of becoming law would require labels on packaged food from Skittles to Mountain Dew...