Texas disaster ‘foreseeable and preventable’, Houston mayor says

Texas state hearings will be held this week into the deadly winter storm that cut millions off from power and water.

Texas will hold hearings this week into how a winter storm cut millions off from utilities and killed dozens, a disaster which the mayor of Houston called “foreseeable and preventable”. Texas State Representative Craig Goldman said on Sunday that power companies, including the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and other stakeholders would take part in a hearing at the state legislature on Thursday. ERCOT supplies power to more than 26 million people in Texas.