Texas Officials Say State Is Ready for Winter Storm January 22, 2026 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Nearly five years after Winter Storm Uri sparked widespread power outages and killed hundreds of Texans, officials and residents are...
Oklahoma Sues Natural Gas Companies Over Price Spikes During Winter Storm Uri April 12, 2024 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Texas-based natural gas companies are being sued by Oklahoma, which alleges they fraudulently reduced gas...
Oklahoma AG Launches Tipline to Report Allegedly Illegal Conduct During Winter Storm Uri January 9, 2024 Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has launched an online tip form where the public can report allegedly illegal conduct related...
Texas Comptroller: State Revenue Driven by Increasing Insurance Premiums September 29, 2023 By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune When Texas lawmakers meet next month for a special session on funding public education, they will have more money available...
Texas Power Grid Operator Can’t be Sued Over 2021 Winter Storm, High Court Rules June 26, 2023 By Emily Foxhall The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also...
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...
Lawsuits Pile Up Two Years After Winter Storm Uri February 15, 2023 By Emily Foxhall HOUSTON — When Cherrilyn Nedd left her uncomfortably cold Summerwood home during the February 2021 winter storm to stay with...
Texas Power Company Says Hartford Has Duty to Defend Uri Suits February 18, 2022 A Texas generation and transmission cooperative is suing its insurer for failing to defend the company against multiple lawsuits stemming...
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas Among States With Highest Frozen Pipe Claims January 25, 2022 State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims...
Texas Officials Revise Death Count of 2021 Winter Storm to 246 January 6, 2022 A new report from the Texas Department of State Health Services confirms a final death count from the February 2021...