CPS Energy’s CEO blamed failed conservation by local residents as a key contributor to the region’s multi-day blackout. Yet the conservation programs are voluntary, underfunded … and the utility
Power plants without insulation failed, leading to sustained blackouts. But poor insulation in homes across the state made it even harder to stay warm.
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This week, a blast of Arctic air has engulfed much of the central US, bringing freezing conditions and record low temperatures to many states.
Texas, in particular, has been badly
Frozen Edition: Enter Polar VorTex
Arctic weather loosed by a disrupted jet stream poured over the Great Plains and fanned across Texas this week, turning the state into a frozen
Polar Ice For Valentine’s Day
Whether lover or lonely-hearted, housed or dangerously unhoused, two-legged or four, the residents of San Antonio and South Texas appear to be entering the
After years of community pressure and, most recently, a petition that would have forced the JK Spruce Coal Plant to shutter, San Antonio’s City-owned utility starts facing reality.
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Love, politics, and rare earth mineral mining converge in this South Texas novel.
Ten years in the making, San Anto’s first rare-earth cli-fi love story (we’d wager) has
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For our families, planet, and future, San Antonio must shut down its last coal plant by 2030. But City-owned CPS Energy won’t discuss shutting the
After a two-year odyssey creating San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan—political delays in adoption, followed by a year of silence—the SA Climate Ready’s new committees
San Antonio Rally to ‘Protect the Results’ as National Movement Mulls Mass Action.
As the nightmare scenario many have been warning about for months came true early Wednesday with President
