Top board leaders of Texas’ embattled power grid operator have resigned following outrage over more than 4 million customers losing electricity during the mid-February deadly winter storm, including many whose frigid homes lacked heat for days in subfreezing temperatures. The …
Rising temperatures began melting the snow and ice in Mississippi and Louisiana, but tens of thousands of people still had little or no water service Monday, some waiting a week for restoration since the outages began during an extended freeze. …
Bill Minick, founder of Texas-based workers’ compensation/workplace injury benefit risk management firm, PartnerSource, will retire at the end of March. Jennifer Hurless, president of PartnerSource, will continue in her current role leading the company. Minick began his professional career as …
One of America’s leading pig slaughterhouses is running faster than ever as meatpackers hustle to keep pork in grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plant worker Hector Ixquier says it’s time to slow down. Ixquier said he sought medical treatment …
A Chambers County, Texas, resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against electricity retailer Griddy, accusing the provider of price gouging customers during last week’s freeze. She is seeking $1 billion in relief for affected customers. Attorneys for Lisa Khoury said …
Texas ranchers worked overtime to haul water and hay to cattle to keep them alive during a freak winter storm, but some cows succumbed to unusual icy temperatures that also killed chickens, idled meat plants and threatened crops. The deaths …
The family of a woman killed in a float accident during the 2020 Nyx parade is suing the krewe, its captain, and the City of New Orleans. The family of Geraldine Turner Carmouche claims that the city, the Mystic Krewe …
The mother of an 11-year-old boy who died after they lost electricity and heat in their Texas mobile home during last week’s freeze has filed a $100 million lawsuit against two power companies for gross negligence. Maria Pineda said the …
The injection of wastewater into underground wells by oil and natural gas producers has been stopped or reduced in the area where a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck in northern Oklahoma early on Feb. 19. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has directed …
After the big freeze in Texas comes the big thaw — and the big demand for workers to repair the broken pipes and sagging roofs the retreating ice and snow will reveal. It could take months for contractors to fix …
