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Texas top utility regulator quits in fallout over blackouts

by Jim Vertuno
| March 3, 2021 12:03 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' top utilities regulator resigned Monday in the widening fallout from blackouts triggered by an unusually heavy and widespread winter storm that left millions in the state without power and water for days.

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