Electric Utilities

It's Getting Hot in Heere

Wind Power to the Rescue

Diva of the Deal

How Enron's high temptress turned massive projects into a $2 billion wet dream for the company -- and an estimated $100 million profit for herself

Paola Mayorga's Latin Grammy Journal

[Ed. Note: Paola Mayorga is a 21-year-old Missouri City woman who won a contest sponsored by Reliant Energy for a trip to the Latin Grammys, including backstage and green carpet access and accomodations at the Four Seasons. Rocks Off asked her to write up her experience.] Paola Mayorga and her mot ... More >>

The Most Unimpressive Hacker Ever

Those wily IT guys.A computer tech who was a contract worker for the energy giant Calpine is going to federal prison for a year and a day because he hacked into an employee's computer and used it for nefarious purposes.Actually, not all that nefarious -- he used the financial information contained o ... More >>

Got Mad, Got Even

Two former HL&P workers took revenge against the Light Company, but say the city settled for "chump change"

Texas Leads The "Filthy 15"!! Ummm, Yay?

Photo courtesy NIOSHIn case you were worrying that the air in Texas was getting too clean and all, you can rest assured it's not.Now it's coal ash that has the greenies up in arms.The National Resources Defense Council has released a list of states that are proposing to build enough new coal plants ... More >>

T. Boone Gets Ready For His Million-Megawatt March

General T. Boone Pickens is invading Washington, D.C. tomorrow. Well, virtually. Members of his New Energy Army, numbering somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million strong, are planning to bombard Congress with emails and phone calls urging lawmakers to pass legislation favorable to Pickens' plan to ... More >>

The T. Boone Pickens Road Show

A former wildcatter and corporate-takeover tycoon preaches alternative energy across America.

Star Trek for the Ages

From West U to deep space

Robert Redford introduces Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars

An actor/activist discusses the dangers of coal and the importance of unity

Bite the Bone!

An actor/activist discusses the dangers of coal and the importance of unity

What Can Brown Do for You?

New Orleans is about to find out

Power Plays

Other options to nuclear have their own set of drawbacks

Bring It On

Why Houston should want a nuclear power plant

Best Place to Pretend You're in Blade Runner

Why Houston should want a nuclear power plant

Blunt About High Fashion

Roll up more than your sleeves with this clothing line

Warning:

A year of Super Bowl media hype has begun

Missing Mantis

Colonel Mustard's been cleared. How about the contractor in the tanning salon?

Letters

Green Diet, School Shame, Capital Con

Red Light, Green Light

With billboards of windmills promising gentle, nonpolluting energy, Green Mountain offers Texans a new power avenue. Will they take it? Should they?

Ghost Riders: Easy Come, Easy No

CenterPoint Energy's power line easements would make ideal bike highways. Too bad they won't let us use them.

Texas' Environmental Agency & The Feds: This Week May Be Crucial

This week's decision will be watched closely​All eyes are on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality this week as its three commissioners will decide whether to grant an air permit to a proposed $3 billion petroleum coke-fired power plant in Corpus Christi.The Las Brisas Energy Center has be ... More >>

TCEQ, State's Clean-Air "Watchdog," About To Be Sued Over A Local Plant

Austin's power supplier a major polluter, groups say​As the Houston Press has written about, and as the Obama administration has determined, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is a pretty lax watchdog.Now they're going to get sued over it.A coalition of clean-air groups has served forma ... More >>

Electric Cars In Houston: There Will Be A Charging Station At Spec's!!

Photo courtesy eVgoeVgo: Jes' juicin' up mah ride​Houston will be home to the nation's first electric vehicle charging ecosystem. Just what is an electric vehicle charging ecosystem? It's a network of charging stations for electric vehicles strategically setup across the Houston area. These c ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Gets Pwned By CenterPoint

What? Rush was wrong about something?​Rush Limbaugh is still busy preaching to the choir these days, even if his influence on anyone who isn't a hard-core Republican has withered away. Apparently he was ranting earlier this week about smart meters, those devices that provide consumers with ex ... More >>