Mose Buchele
Mose Buchele is the Austin-based broadcast reporter for KUT's NPR partnership StateImpact Texas . He has been on staff at KUT 90.5 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 masters degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin.
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Millions of people are under heat advisories. Texas is experiencing some of the worst heat where high temperature records continue to be broken.
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Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 for his part in the creation of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, common in cellphones, laptops and electric cars around the world.
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Oil-rich Texas produces more wind power and, soon, more solar power than anywhere else in the country. Now state lawmakers want to cut renewable power off at the knees.
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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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A drop in the population of monarchs in Mexico over the winter means you may see fewer of them flying back through Texas.
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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.
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Senators want to make renewable energy in the Texas more expensive and put public money toward building more gas power plants.
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Continuing drought means Texas rice farmers will not receive water from the Lower Colorado River Authority in 2023.
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The blackout continues to haunt those who experienced it.
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Ice-laden trees have been blamed for widespread power outages in Austin, Texas, this week. More than a hundred thousand households lost power for days.
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The plan would raise prices and carbon dioxide emissions, and critics say it may not bring reliability.
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ERCOT says that, as a division of state government, it has sovereign immunity. Plaintiffs point out that it is also an independent nonprofit, a fact the grid operator sometimes uses to its advantage.