Elizabeth Trovall
Reporter at Marketplace
Houston-based reporter for @Marketplace covering energy & immigration / Formerly: @HoustonChron @HoustonPubMedia / Tips + ideas: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
marketplace.org | Elizabeth Trovall
Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Banks will add color to the economic picture when the Beige Book drops on Wednesday. It’s a revered source of anecdotal economic data — but it’s also come under a bit of scrutiny by the Dallas Fed. Their recent analysis shows that since the pandemic, the anecdotal data reflected in the Beige Book has painted a more muted picture of economic growth than the hard data, and this got us thinking.
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1 week ago |
tpr.org | Elizabeth Trovall
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil, and a lot of that is coming from wells in West Texas. But there's a problem: Thousands of wells are no longer being used and some are quietly spewing brine and releasing millions of metric tons of methane. Across the country, billions have been spent plugging up old wells. And often, governments are forced to pick up the tab.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Elizabeth Trovall
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil, and a lot of that is coming from wells in West Texas. But there's a problem: Thousands of wells are no longer being used and some are quietly spewing brine and releasing millions of metric tons of methane. Across the country, billions have been spent plugging up old wells. And often, governments are forced to pick up the tab.
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1 week ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Elizabeth Trovall
This story originally aired on "Marketplace" on May 22. Listen to Marketplace each weekday at 6:30 p.m.on News 88.7. When Amy Zachmeyer, 41, bought her midcentury, 2-bedroom Houston home for $185,000, it was a fixer upper — but she still felt good about the investment. "It has been really important to me to own a home," she said. Her parents rented and moved around growing up. She spent most of middle and high school without her own room.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Elizabeth Trovall
When Amy Zachmeyer, 41, bought her midcentury, 2-bedroom Houston home for $185,000, it was a fixer upper — but she still felt good about the investment. “It has been really important to me to own a home,” she said. Her parents rented and moved around growing up. She spent most of middle and high school without her own room. The Houston property was Zachmeyer’s first home, which she and her husband bought from her landlord in 2021.
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