Elizabeth Trovall | Marketplace

Natural gas could play a role in the green energy transition, but additional natural transmission pipelines are critical to meet growing electricity demand.

Tariffs on Mexico and Canada would suddenly create barriers in what’s been a decades-long free trade region.

Things like generators and microgrids are on the rise because of electricity reliability concerns in the state. For low- and middle-income Texans, a new and expanding lending program is also helping ready them for the strains of a changing climate.

Microgrids generate and supply their own power in tandem with the grid and work as a backup option in case extreme weather knocks out power.

A home builder and an electricity retailer are partnering to install backup power batteries in new homes as Texans brace for potential outages this winter.

In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.