Texas Fires Have Emitted a Near-Record Amount of Carbon March 14, 2024 By Zahra Hirji Texas fires released roughly 3.4 million metric ton of carbon dioxide in January and February, according to a new analysis....
Texas Committee to Investigate Panhandle Wildfires March 14, 2024 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune LUBBOCK — Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is creating a legislative committee to investigate the Texas Panhandle wildfires to ensure...
Xcel Texas Wildfire Legal Reckoning to Take Years to Play Out March 12, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Rachel Graf (Xcel Energy Inc. will likely be wrangling for years with the legal fallout from the wildfires burning through the Texas...
Texas Firefighters Make Progress Containing Panhandle Wildfires March 12, 2024 By Jayme Lozano-Carver, The Texas Tribune LUBBOCK — Texas firefighters are gaining more control over the remaining wildfires in the Panhandle, more than two weeks after...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 11, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
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...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 8, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
Texas Panhandle Ranchers Look to Rebuild After Wildfires March 6, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune and Neelam Bohra, The Texas Tribune CANADIAN — Farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle lost livestock, buildings and infrastructure in the wildfires still raging through the...
Many Texas Panhandle Homes Burned in Wildfires Weren’t Insured March 5, 2024 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune FRITCH — Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for...
Infernos Rage From Texas to Australia as Wildfire Season Kicks Off Early March 4, 2024 By Brian K. Sullivan, Jessica Nix and David Stringer After a year of deadly wildfires around the globe, the world is burning again from Texas to Australia — and...