My opinions exactly fit the facts regarding grid maintenance, improvement, tree trimming and environazi/EPA interference in the same.
Please show where there has been such interference in tree trimming. Usually opposition is more by homeowners who don't want their pretty trees chewed up, but that is more short-sighteness on their part.
But the larger claim by Joe Clark is that the EPA's coal mandates have something to do with this particular outage. They don't.
You certainly did not grasp all the ramifications I cited for outages. Of course storms precipitated the events, but continued outages were prolonged by all the reasons mentioned by other FR posters: Inability to trim trees, lack of maintenance on infrastructure because of EPA mandates steering capital away from transmission upgrades, etc.