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The mix of grant funding and financing from the state’s Flood Infrastructure Fund will go towards removing and demolishing old water pumps, renovating and adding new pump stations and improving structural controls in the sump system. The funding will also be used to construct new levees.
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Data collected by Dallas’ Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association found parts of the city can get up to 10 degrees hotter than others.
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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.
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Five billboards by a Dallas artist are part of a project to increase awareness of April's total eclipse. That effort includes more than 100 events across 13 states.
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In oral arguments on Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court was asked not to decide whether regulators made the right call, but whether they acted within their authority when they set energy prices to the max.
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Over a third of the electricity on the Texas grid came from the sun on Sunday, a new state record.
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A proposed ordinance making its way to the city council would create a two-year pilot program allowing approved residents to grow specific native vegetation in their yards
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Ever since 2021, when a massive winter storm crashed the state’s energy system and left millions without power for days, forecasts like this have provoked deep anxiety in Texas.
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Despite improvements in weatherization efforts, Texas' electric grid remains in a precarious position heading into the colder months.
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A technology that could help combat climate change is being championed by an unlikely proponent: Occidental Petroleum, a big oil company. And that's raising all kinds of knotty issues.
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There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.
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Two massive winter storms have laid bare the increased vulnerability of U.S. power grids, and time is running out to reduce the risk for this year.
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In the past, the city relied on de-icing, using pre-wetted rock salt or chemicals on roads after they had already frozen. Now, crews will add a brine pre-treatment before snow and ice conditions.
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Nearly 40 cities are participating in a holiday grease roundup now through mid-January where residents can bring leftover cooking oils and grease to be recycled.