Mose Buchele
Mose Buchele is the Austin-based broadcast reporter for KUT's NPR partnership StateImpact Texas . He has been on staff at KUT 90.5 since 2009, covering local and state issues. Mose has also worked as a blogger on politics and an education reporter at his hometown paper in Western Massachusetts. He holds masters degrees in Latin American Studies and Journalism from UT Austin.
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A plan to build a network of 765 kV transmission lines to bolster the state's power grid has come under intense opposition from landowners in its path and others.
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Warmer air holds more water. When that air encounters the right weather conditions, bigger storms emerge.
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Public radio reporters and NPR's CEO and President Katherine Maher talked political division, funding cuts and more on the first night of the inaugural KUT Festival.
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The boom in data centers, many to support artificial intelligence, could strain the Texas power grid and increase energy costs.
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While cities in blue states like Minnesota and California resist ICE enforcement, some Democrat-led cities in red states, like Austin, Texas, are in a heated debate over how to respond.
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Five years after the Texas blackout, the power grid is now better equipped to handle winter storms, but what has not been fixed is also becoming clearer.
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Thousands of people are still without power after ice and snow gripped much of the country, rattling power grids and energy markets.
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In some parts of the U.S., ICE agents are seizing people directly from county jails to take into immigration custody. The tactic has raised concerns over due process.
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Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm related blackout.
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Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.