evidence: As Texas faced record-low temperatures in February 2021 and snow and ice made roads impassable, the state’s electric grid operator lost control of the power supply, leaving millions without access to electricity. As the blackouts extended from hours to days, top state lawmakers called for investigations into the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, and Texans demanded accountability for the disaster. The Texas Tribune covered the impact of the storm in real time and continues to bring accountability coverage as officials address the issues exposed by the storm. [...] Abbott said in an interview with Sean Hannity in the middle of a crisis that "the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America." Ignoring that experts and officials agreed that a disruption in energy powered by fossil fuels was the biggest culprit behind Texas' outages, Abbott added that losses in wind and solar energy "thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis." [...] When California experienced power outages and rolling blackouts last year, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, a Republican who was, at the time, the presumptive next representative in his Panhandle district, tweeted, "This is what the Biden/Harris plan for our energy sector looks like. Corrupt ‘green’ policies that leave us in the dark, and Texas energy workers out of a job." U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, mocked the state’s energy disruption by tweeting, "Alexa, show me what happens when you let Democrats control energy policy."