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Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin, on a derecho that slammed the Houston region in May with 100 mph winds, knocking out power for nearly 1 million customers. City officials, residents and utility companies were still trying to recover from the damage from that storm when Hurricane Beryl hit in July, knocking out power to more than 2.6 million customers and showing how vulnerable the Southeast Texas grid’s infrastructure is to high winds. (Texas Tribune — July 18, 2024)
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Stanford University professor Bruce Cain, regarding the likelihood that California will meet its 2030 electric vehicle transition targets. The state would need one million public chargers by the end of 2030, almost 10 times more than the number available to drivers in December, to meet the target, and 129,000 new stations would need to be built every year for the next seven years, which is more than seven times the current pace. (Associated Press — July 16, 2024)
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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican who vetoed a bill passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature to pause evictions for tenants applying for emergency assistance. Though eviction filings in Las Vegas appear to be trending down from last year, they were 28 percent higher than pre-pandemic norms for the month of May, according to the Eviction Lab, a research unit at Princeton University. (Wall Street Journal — July 15, 2024)
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Bobby Davis, senior adviser to Philadelphia District Council 33, pushing back against the city’s new mandate that all 26,000 city employees return to the office, five days a week, starting this week. Davis claimed that the Municipal Services Building has been taken over by birds and, therefore, is unfit for workers to return. Other workers are complaining about the unfortunate, mid-summer timing of the return-to-office mandate while others expressed concerns about health struggles and family caregiving responsibilities. According to the city, about 80 percent of its employees already work on site, full time. (NPR — July 15, 2024)
