Cynically, I'd bet there's a solution to this. However, it'd eat into gas company profits and Texas, being a deregulation "paradise", doesn't require it in the code, so it doesn't get done. So occasionally the gas mains spontaneously explode...

See also Texas power instability in the winter.

No, Republicans want to impeach Biden so they can say to Democrats "See! Your guy got impeached too!" (an equivocation fallacy) while also attempt to distract from the current Republican front runner's history of womanizing/sexual assault and his multiple ongoing trials, with at least a few are going poorly.