Texas blackouts raise climate warning
Feb 19, 2021
3 minutes
By Justin Worland
PHOTOGRAPH BY MONTINIQUE MONROE
The Brief is reported by Madeleine Carlisle, Alejandro de la Garza, Suyin Haynes, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, Madeline Roache and Olivia B. Waxman
OR SCIENTISTS, THE HAVOC WREAKED BY THE extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February—dropping several inches of snow and leaving millions without power—did not come as a surprise. Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter
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