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The 2019 legislative session saw fights over renewable energy, climate resilience and pipeline construction. Now that the dust is settling on the field of…
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Wind power in Texas is often seen as one of the state’s great success stories. It’s grown so much in the last 20 years that the state now leads the…
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From Texas Standard:A somewhat old idea to address climate change is getting new life, now that it appears to have the backing of New York freshman…
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke in Austin today about a new Department of Energy plan to bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants in the name of…
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When Billy Whipple was learning carpentry as a young man in New England, he got some strange advice from a veteran carpenter.“He had his old beliefs that…
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A lot of what you read in the news boils down to numbers. What's the unemployment rate? How's the stock market? What’s the price of a gallon of gas? When…
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From Texas Standard.Global warming and climate change are two oft-used phrases in the conversation about energy production. Much of the time, scientists…
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Texas leads the country in wind energy production and, because of the way the state’s electric grid is set up, most of that power stays right here. But a…
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Texas leads the country in wind power generation. But solar power is starting to take off. As the industry grows, KUT’s Mose Buchele takes a look at what…
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From Texas Standard:The Obama administration announced what it calls the Clean Power Plan — an ambitious plan to dramatically reduce carbon emissions.…