SOLAR: Texas surpassed California as the nation’s leader in solar installations last year, but a professor explains that has less to do with the state’s commitment to fighting climate change and is more about making infrastructure projects easy to permit and build. (The Atlantic)

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  • A Florida city considers hiring a consultant to study whether to drop Duke Energy and create a new municipal utility when its 30-year agreement with the utility expires next year. (Tampa Bay Times)
  • Officials in a Texas township are pushing for Entergy to take over from CenterPoint Energy after years of complaints about outages and poor communication, and now Hurricane Beryl. (Houston Chronicle)

SUSTAINABILITY: Texas A&M University faculty and students work with teachers from Texas’ Coastal Bend to research and develop lesson plans around renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. (Corpus Christi Caller-Times) 

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