GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Politicians and regulators have highlighted power plant operators’ failure to winterize equipment against cold temperatures, despite guidance to do so after similar, if much smaller-scale, winter rolling blackouts in 2011.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas.

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Power grid Natural gas Cooling Investment 130

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, there are so many crops getting irrigated , water is evaporating off them and cooling summer days in parts of the Midwest, like central Wisconsin, countering some of the warming from climate change. Many Southeastern cities are plagued with flimsy manufactured housing, antiquated drainage systems, and decades-old power grids.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” Since 2011, the whales’ deaths—largely from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear—have outpaced births.

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