
Emily Foxhall
Energy Reporter at Texas Tribune
2024-25 Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. On leave from covering climate for the @TexasTribune.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
insurancejournal.com | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Emily Foxhall
When Hurricane Beryl swept through southeast Texas on July 8, its damaging 80-mile-per-hour winds took down thousands of trees and knocked out much of the electricity system. More than 2.6 million Texas power customers went without electricity for days in the summer heat. In the aftermath, officials and residents alike turned their eyes to the Houston area’s electric utility, CenterPoint Energy.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
gilmermirror.com | Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Emily Foxhall
By Alejandra Martinez and Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune July 25, 2024 “Public Utility Commission releases investigative report on CenterPoint Energy’s Hurricane Beryl response” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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Aug 16, 2024 |
texasstandard.org | Yuriko Schumacher |Emily Foxhall |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Martha Pskowski
Climate change is causing hotter days and nights, which put extra stress on the human body. The problem is likely to only get worse. Yet deaths related to heat are almost certainly undercounted in Texas and nationwide, according to experts. Accounting for heat’s role in a death is notoriously difficult because of the subjectivity and complexity of the process.
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Aug 14, 2024 |
msn.com | Emily Foxhall |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Yuriko Schumacher |Dylan Baddour |Martha Pskowski
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Aug 14, 2024 |
texastribune.org | Emily Foxhall |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez |Yuriko Schumacher |Dylan Baddour
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. On a scorching May 2020 day that topped out at 95 degrees, Austin resident José Mario Calles reported to his landscaping job.
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