Emily Foxhall
@emfoxhall
Climate reporter for the @TexasTribune. Past @HoustonChron environment reporter. Yalie and native Houstonian. Send a note: [email protected]
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A recent ERCOT report mentioned 3 reasons for 2023's extreme heat: El Niño, the Tonga volcano eruption and a solar maximum.
“If you're trying to explain why 2023 is hot and you don't mention climate change, that’s climate denial,” said Andrew Dessler
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
A company plans to run a 48-inch natural gas pipeline near the small city of Van Horn that would funnel gas toward an LNG plant in Mexico. Residents don't want it -- but there's little they can do to stop it.
Read this story from Alejandra Martinez and Martha Pskowski:
texastribune.org/2023/12/20/tex…
So many congrats to Elena Bruess for this important, thoughtfully reported story on the Fifth Ward cancer cluster. She asks: If city officials know contamination is a concern there and are working to relocate people, why aren't new residents being warned? houstonlanding.org/houston-greate…
📌 ICYMI—We all know that in 2021 we were 4 minutes of overconsumption away from the Texas power grid totally shutting down for weeks or months. This week Emily Foxhall has all the details on why a situation that ERCOT itself called “unacceptable” failed to change this fall.
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Insurance rates are rising --- thanks to climate change and inflation. Don't miss this important story from Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️:
texastribune.org/2023/11/30/tex…
Today's the day! Please consider donating to the Texas Tribune this #GivingTuesday . I wouldn't be able to do my work covering energy issues across Texas without support from readers like y'all. đź’› bit.ly/47NoV0F
High school students in the Permian Basin are learning oilfield skills in the classroom --- and energy companies such as Chevron and ExxonMobil want to see even more programs in place.
Story by Carlos Nogueras: texastribune.org/2023/11/21/oil…
New standards will require Texas eighth graders to learn about climate change starting next year.
Last week the Texas State Board of Education approved only five of 12 proposed science textbooks to meet the new rules.
From Erin Douglas 📝🌎🕵🏻‍♀️ and Kevin Vu:
texastribune.org/2023/11/17/tex…
Port Arthur activist John Beard and law firm Lone Star Legal Aid had a big win this week. A federal court struck down an air permit for an LNG plant being built in the area.
Beard: “We’re going to attack every single one of them.”
Story by Dylan Baddour
texastribune.org/2023/11/16/tex…
Last week’s earthquake in West Texas could close off a key oil field wastewater injection area if Texas regulators follow a plan established last year, threatening valuable oil production as the industry struggles to find places to put the waste. houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…
East Texas residents are appealing to the Public Utility Commission -- which regulates electricity -- because they say their cities are charging too much for power.
“We are getting ripped off,” one resident said.
Story by Pooja Salhotra:
texastribune.org/2023/11/15/eas…
Midland is fighting a company that wants to inject wastewater from oil and gas operations into the ground. The area is intertwined with the oil and gas industry yet city officials worry it could harm the city's water supply.
Important story by Martha Pskowski:
texastribune.org/2023/11/14/tex…
Five bison have arrived on a ranch outside Dallas owned by a member of Muscogee (Creek) Nation --- part of a broader effort to bring bison back to Indigenous lands.
Alejandra Martinez beautifully reports for the Texas Tribune on why this matters:
texastribune.org/2023/11/13/tex…
Love this story from Pooja Salhotra: How a small East Texas school district replaced its gas-guzzling buses with an all-electric fleet
texastribune.org/2023/11/10/eas…
not to brag but i think houston should be proud of its newspaper. houston has some of the most scrutinized elections in the nation & today's a mayor election. so Houston Chronicle sent reporters to every poll where we heard about issues today, interviewing the person in charge 🧵