
Mose Buchele
Senior Correspondent, Energy & EnvironmentMose Buchele focuses on energy and environmental reporting at KUT. He has been on staff at KUT since 2009, covering local and state issues. Mose has also worked as a blogger on politics and an education reporter at his hometown paper in Western Massachusetts. He holds master's degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin. You can email him at mbuchele@kut.org.
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State senators have taken policies that would damage the Texas renewable energy sector and added them to a bill to fund the state's Public Utility Commission.
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Supporters say the plan would help bolster the Texas grid. Opponents call it a costly and unnecessary giveaway to energy companies.
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The Texas grid will be more reliant on renewables than ever, according to a recent state assessment. Texas regulators don't like that.
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The process can leave him feeling “beat up,” but he still gets the thrill he felt when he painted for the first time after an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.
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En Estados Unidos, el reciclaje sufre una crisis de confianza. Una serie de noticias demuestran que los residuos, cuidadosamente clasificados y depositados en los contenedores azules, pueden acabar en los vertederos.
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Plastic in the U.S. is largely going unrecycled, but the city says that's not so for the plastic we put in the blue bins.
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El Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de EE.UU. también está decidiendo si incluye a la especie en la lista de especies amenazadas o en peligro de extinción.
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Los senadores republicanos del estado han propuesto destinar dinero público a la construcción de centrales eléctricas de gas natural como forma de aumentar la fiabilidad energética.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is determining whether to list the species as threatened or endangered. The listing would bring new regulatory protections to the species and its habitat. Depending on how the protections are written, however, listing could also complicate local monarch protection and propagation efforts.
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A bill passed by the Senate proposed setting aside $10 billion to finance 10,000 megawatts of natural gas power plants. A document shows that amount would pay for only 5,800 megawatts.