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This article was first co-published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. In January 2014, power plants owned by the largest Texas electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse. The incident was the second […]

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