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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Austin City Council promised to revisit its water plans after members of an key advisory panel said they were not ambitious enough.
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Churches around the university have found themselves providing food, medical aid and spiritual support amid pro-Palestinian protests and the police response.
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Austin City Council is scheduled to vote on proposals to overhaul Austin drought rules and long-term conservation rules on Thursday. The plans failed to gain the support of a city advisory panel charged with vetting water policy.
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Austin is struggling with drought. But members of a key advisory board say the city's water utility could do more to conserve.
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Climate change, habitat loss and pesticides have all wreaked havoc on monarch butterfly populations.
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The massive share of renewable energy on the grid is a positive sign for efforts to combat climate change. It will become ever-more common as solar, wind and battery-storage facilities are added.
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Once a region is determined to be in violation of air quantity standards, the federal government can withhold funding for transportation and other projects or refuse to issue permits for initiatives that would exacerbate the pollution.
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La ley Connect the Grid Act del exmiembro del Consejo de Austin obligaría a ERCOT a crear nuevas interconexiones con las redes eléctricas vecinas.
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The former Austin City Council member's Connect the Grid Act would mandate that ERCOT create new interconnections with neighboring power grids.
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The goal of the Texas Power Grid Investment Summit was to attract investors to build natural gas power plants in Texas. But it was colored by the history of BlackRock and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the two main organizers.