Paul Chu, founding director and chief scientist at the University of Houston’s Texas Center for Superconductivity, discusses how energy storage could revolutionize the grid, and how Texas plays a role in advancing the technology.
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Staffers Say Texas Regulator Should Nix Oncor Deal
Experts at the Public Utility Commission of Texas are urging its three commissioners to reject plans by a Dallas oilman and real estate tycoon to take over the state’s largest electric transmission company.
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House Clears Bill Aimed At Red River Confusion
Legislation aimed at resolving a dispute over who owns land along the Texas side of the Red River has cleared the U.S. House. But the White House has threatened to veto it.
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Economy
Lawmakers Grill Miller on Ag Fee Hikes
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller faced pointed questions from lawmakers Tuesday over his plan to dramatically hike fees on a host of licenses, registrations and services that his agency provides.
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Lamar Smith’s Climate Views Win Flat Earth Award
Christmas elves, pirates and scientists gathered Monday to present climate change skeptic U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, with a fake award from the “Flat Earth Foundation of Texas.”
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LCRA Fights Release of Data on New Reservoir
The Lower Colorado River Authority has concluded that its new southeast Texas reservoir won’t hurt aquatic life downstream in Matagorda Bay, but the organization is refusing to release the data behind that contention.
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Judge Approves Energy Future Holdings’ Bankruptcy Plan
A federal bankruptcy judge has signed off on a plan break up key pieces of Energy Future Holdings — a major step in the conglomerate’s effort to shed tens of billions of dollars in debt.
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Firm May Pay $2 Million for Cleanup of Site Feds Say Costs $23 Million
Energy Future Holdings, mired in bankruptcy, has agreed to pay up to $2 million to help clean up long-abandoned uranium mines in New Mexico — a sum far lower than the federal government originally sought.
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New in Trib+Water: A Tribute to Texas Rivers in Song
In this week’s edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: A celebration of Texas rivers in song, eager beavers might help control algae growth and an interview with Meredith Miller of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University.
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George P. Bush Wades into Red River Fight with Feds
The Texas land commissioner on Tuesday asked to joined seven North Texas families in a federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of perpetuating an “arbitrary seizure” of land along the Red River.