Posted on · Climate change and other factors are shortening the window when aging Texas power plants can make repairs to run at full strength in hot summer months.
Posted on · Unlike most cities across the country, Houstonians have lots of choices when it comes to buying electricity – including plans for people who want to support renewable energy.
Posted on · The Texas House and Senate both approved negotiated versions of Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3, the two sweeping bills to change the state’s power grid and the people who oversee it.
Posted on · Oil companies already use captured carbon to produce more oil from old fields, a process called "enhanced oil recovery."
Posted on · A new study says sulfur dioxide is the most dangerous pollutant coming from Texas coal plants.
Posted on · The EPA argues the Obama Administration inflated the benefits of the rule.
Posted on · The state is breaking records for electricity use at a time when power reserves have dropped.
Posted on · About 850 jobs are being lost from the plants shutting down.
Posted on · The new plan gives Texas power plants alternatives to installing costly emissions controls
Posted on · "Rhetoric's one thing, money’s another," said one energy researcher
Posted on · The agency plans to let Texas power plants pursue "alternatives" to retrofitting plants with emission controls
Posted on · The study looked at what would happen if Dallas company Luminant closed its Big Brown and Monticello power plants.
Posted on · Some industry analysts are calling coal a "zombie industry" – meaning it's dying but still functioning. So far in 2016, U.S. coal production is 32 percent lower than it was a year ago, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Meanwhile, a new study says Texans are shifting away from relying on energy […]
Posted on · Texas and West Virginia are leading more than two dozen states who are challenging President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which establishes standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last month denied a request from Texas and other states to […]
Posted on · It's sort of overlooked here in Greater Houston amid a prominent oil and gas industry, but we do still have coal-fired power plants. And a recent report from the Sierra Club is singling out one such plant in Fort Bend County. Today, we talk with the Sierra Club’s Chrissy Mann. She's the Senior Campaign Representative […]