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Texas and California built different power grids, but neither stood up to climate change
The winter storm that crippled Texas this week and heat wave the hit California last summer show much more needs to be done to protect power supplies from extreme weather.
An Oncor Electric Delivery crew works on restoring power to a neighborhood following the winter storm that passed through Texas. | Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP
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Texas and California may be worlds apart in their politics and climate policies, but they have something in common: Extreme weather crashed their power grids and left people stranded in the dark.
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
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Clements sworn in at FERC, creating partisan split Source: By Arianna Skibell, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2020
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s newest member, Allison Clements, is sworn in yesterday.@FERC/Twitter
Democrat Allison Clements was sworn into the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission late Tuesday, creating a partisan split of two Republicans and two Democrats.
Clements joins FERC Chairman James Danly (R) and Commissioners Neil Chatterjee (R) and Richard Glick (D) on the five-member panel charged with overseeing regional energy markets and large-scale natural gas infrastructure.
Along with Clements, a longtime energy lawyer, President Trump nominated Republican Mark Christie earlier this year. Christie’s swearing-in ceremony is slated for early January, raising questions about a temporary gridlock during FERC’s next meeting Dec. 17.