Texas has opened up a new front in the age-old battle between green-energy champions and their fossil-fuel rivals.One side sees the chance to build a new, fortified and more sustainable power grid.
The other calls it proof positive that it’s too soon to abandon oil, gas and coal.Both, however, acknowledge a familiar dynamic that dates back to the environmental movement’s earliest days: people don’t think about pollution when they’re just trying to survive.
Critics rip ‘Flyin’ Ted’ Cruz for Cancun vacation amid Texas storm “When the temperature drops below zero, nobody cares where the electricity comes from — they just need the heat to come on,” Republican Texas congressman Michael Burgess told a committee hearing Thursday.“We all agree.