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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

  2024-03-07 in blog.ucsusa.org

Our new map shows where nuclear weapons facilities overlap with areas with a history of wildfires.

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Texas | Nuclear Power


Smokehouse Creek Fire - Wikipedia

  2024-03-04 (or before) in Wikipedia

  Tagged under: Wildfires | Texas


Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning

  2024-03-02 in The New York Times

We’re entering clima incognita.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


A visual guide to the Texas wildfire

  2024-03-01 in The Guardian

What has been the impact of the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle, and what could happen now?

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns

  2024-02-29 in The Hill

CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed an…

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Fire truck drives through raging Texas wildfire

  2024-02-28 (or before) in The BBC

Flames tower above the road as thick smoke rises, in footage filmed by a local fire department.

  Tagged under: Texas


DFW - Normals, Means, and Extremes

  2024-02-27 (or before) in National Weather Service

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Data | Texas


February 27-28, 2024 -- Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas

  2024-02-27 in CNN International

An out-of-control wildfire is threatening Texas Panhandle towns and forcing residents to evacuate.

  Tagged under: Texas


Wildfire grows into one of largest in Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns

  2024-02-27 in Associated Press News

Fast-moving wildfire in the Texas Panhandle grows to nearly 800 square miles, second-largest in state's history.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Texas wildfires continue growing as firefighters struggle to contain massive Panhandle blazes

  2024-02-27 by in Texas Tribune

The five fires have burned more than a million acres — more than double the landmass of Houston — as residents have fled or sheltered in place.

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


February 27-28, 2024 -- Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas

  2024-02-27 in CNN

An out-of-control wildfire is threatening Texas Panhandle towns and forcing residents to evacuate.

  Tagged under: Texas


Dallas-Fort Worth to break February day heat record Monday | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

  2024-02-26 in Fort Worth Star Telegram

In 1917, North Texas saw its hottest Feb. 26 with a high of 90 degrees. The weather forecast for the day calls for highs in the low 90s.

  Tagged under: Texas | Climate Change | Extreme Heat


Another Hot, Dry Summer May Push Parts of Texas to the Brink - Inside Climate News

  2024-01-22 by in Inside Climate News

Some areas are starting the year with low water reserves, and forecasters don’t expect substantial relief from the weather.

  Tagged under: Heatwaves | Texas


More Than 3 Million Americans Are Already Climate Migrants, Researchers Say - Bloomberg

  2023-12-18 in Bloomberg

A new analysis finds it’s not uncommon for people to move away from their street or neighborhood due to flood risk.

  Tagged under: Texas | Oceans


Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

  2023-10-30 by in DeSmog

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31.  Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other's efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics G...

  Tagged under: Fish | Louisiana | Texas | Activism


POLITICO Pro

  2023-10-04 (or before) in Politico PRO

A new facility may be on the horizon for Texas-based Occidental Petroleum and a company in the United Arab Emirates.

  Tagged under: Texas | Middle East


Texas prisons are as hot as ovens. I’m being cooked like a rotisserie chicken

  2023-10-01 in The Guardian

Each year gets hotter but there’s still barely any air conditioning in the state’s prisons. I know what it’s like to be cooked alive

  Tagged under: Texas


The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it work?

  2023-09-12 in The Guardian

The plant will inject 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the ground each year – but is it just greenwashing from big oil?

  Tagged under: Texas | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting


Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study

  2023-09-08 in The Guardian

Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths

  Tagged under: Texas | California | Heatwaves


Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars

  2023-09-05 in The Guardian

Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-fossil fuel projects

  Tagged under: Texas | Fracking | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Religion | Disinformation and Misinformation


Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire

  2023-08-25 in The Guardian

Nearly 1,000 people in Merryville, in Beauregard parish close to Texas border, ordered to evacuate as Tiger Island fire burns nearby

  Tagged under: Louisiana | Texas | Wildfires


POLITICO Pro

  2023-08-25 (or before) in Politico PRO

A surge in battery storage is helping Texas beat the heat without additional fossil fuels.

  Tagged under: Texas | Fossil Fuels | Electricity Grid


Ecosystems near Texas-Mexico border ‘choking’ from efforts to stop migrants

  2023-08-11 in The Guardian

Greg Abbott, the state governor, has deployed fences, razor wires and buoys along the Rio Grande, demolishing the environment

  Tagged under: Rivers | Texas | Mexico


Global South issues in the Global North? A fossil toxic tour through Texas and Louisiana - Part 2 | EnergyTransition.org

  2023-08-10 in EnergyTransition.org | The Global Energiewende

In May 2023, Andy Gheorghiu travelled along the US Gulf coast and visited LNG export sites (operating, under construction and planned) which have been co-financed by German banks or enabled through…

  Tagged under: Louisiana | Texas | Finance


The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints - Inside Climate News

  2023-07-30 by in Inside Climate News

State of Denial: First in a series about Texas’ environmental regulators. On a rugged stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas, environmental groups called foul in 2020 when an oil company sought pollution permits to expand its export terminal beside Lavaca Bay.  Led by a coalition of local shrimpers and oystermen, the groups produced an […]

  Tagged under: Texas


Only 5% of national TV news segments on the record-shattering heat wave that scorched Texas mentioned climate change

  2023-07-11 (or before) in Media Matters for America

Throughout the recent record-breaking and deadly heat wave that affected millions across Texas and other parts of the Southwest, major TV networks largely failed to report on the links between climate change and the extreme heat. Over a two-week period from June 15-29, an analysis by Media Matters found: Only 5% of the 310 segments and weathercasts about the heat wave across national TV news mentioned climate change. Major cable news networks – CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC – aired 187 segments or weathercasts about the heat wave, but only 8 mentioned climate change. MSNBC mentioned the connection between the extr...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas


Opinion | In Texas, Dead Fish and Red-Faced Desperation Are Signs of Things to Come

  2023-07-08 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Fish | Texas


The energy transition will be volatile | Financial Times

  2023-07-01 (or before) in Financial Times

Also in today’s newsletter, scorching heat in Texas drives power demand to record highs

  Tagged under: Texas


Heat dome’s scorching temperatures in Texas expected to expand across US

  2023-06-28 in The Guardian

Power use in the state reached a record high Tuesday and will continue to strain the grid as the heatwave moves north

  Tagged under: Texas | Electricity Grid | Florida | Alabama


Texas heatwave blamed for 13 deaths as scorching temperatures and smoke spread across US – as it happened

  2023-06-28 in The Guardian

Detroit extends air quality alert through Thursday while evacuation orders in effect in Arizona as crews fight Diamond fire

  Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires


Solar helps Texas carry energy load as heatwave puts power grid to test

  2023-06-28 in The Guardian

State has managed to avoid rolling blackouts amid three-digit temperatures thanks to its supply of solar power, experts say

  Tagged under: Solar Energy | Texas | Electricity Grid


Record-breaking Texas heatwave enters third week as thousands lose power

  2023-06-24 in The Guardian

New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas also face scorching temperatures as heat dome settles over US south-west

  Tagged under: Louisiana | Texas | Fossil Fuels


Texas governor signs bill rescinding water breaks as deadly heat grips state

  2023-06-23 in The Guardian

Measure will nullify local ordinances that provide workers protection from devastating, triple-digit temperatures

  Tagged under: Texas


ERCOT asks Texans to reduce power use Tuesday as temperatures soar into triple-digits

  2023-06-21 (or before) by in Houston Chronicle | Breaking News, Houston, Texas, US, World News

Natural gas fired power plants are expected to meet about half of the state's electricity needs during the hottest part of the day.

  Tagged under: Electricity | Texas


We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth's spin

  2023-06-17 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences

  AGU press contact: Rebecca Dzombak, news@agu.org (UTC-4 hours) Contact information for the researchers: Ki-Weon Seo, Seoul National University, seokiweon@snu.ac.kr (UTC+9 hours) WASHINGTON — By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, AGU’s journal for short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth and space sciences. Based on climate models, scientists previously es...

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas | Net Zero | Sea Level | India


Texas joins other parts of the globe in feeling the extreme heat

  2023-06-16 in Axios

  Tagged under: Texas | Extreme Heat


Triple-digit heat across Texas is forecast to break energy records | CNN

  2023-06-15 by in CNN

Summer is still a week away and the Lone Star State is already sweltering, as triple-digit heat could lead to more than 75 heat records being broken across Texas this week.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas | Health | Finance


Thousands of fish wash up on Texas coast

  2023-06-13 (or before) in The BBC

Experts in the region say it is due to a depletion of oxygen after high water temperatures.

  Tagged under: Fish | Texas


Texas Senate Moves To Shut Down Renewable Energy Permanently - Reform Austin

  2023-05-26 in Reform Austin News - Drawing Attention to What Matters

With only days left in the legislative session, Texas Republicans in the Senate are hoping to permanently cripple the renewable energy industry in the state with amendments on a must-pass bill.

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Texas | US Politics


Exxon’s new ‘advanced recycling’ plant raises environmental concerns

  2023-04-10 in The Guardian

Advocates warn plants like the latest addition to the Texas complex generate hazardous pollutants and provide cover for oil giants to produce new plastic products

  Tagged under: Exxon | Texas


Tomlinson: Experts slam $10B grid plan, GOP approves anyway

  2023-04-10 (or before) by in Houston Chronicle | Breaking News, Houston, Texas, US, World News

Texas Republicans approved a $10 billion plan for backup electricity after industry experts and executives told them it was a bad idea, urged alternatives.

  Tagged under: Insurance | US Politics | Electricity | Texas | Electricity Grid


Musk company wants to dump millions of gallons of treated wastewater in Texas

  2023-03-15 (or before) by in Chron: Houston News, Sports, Entertainment, Food and Drink - Chron

A Musk-affiliated LLC has filed a request to dump 142,500 gallons per day near Bastrop.

  Tagged under: Colorado River | Rivers | Cars | Texas | Tesla


One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California - Inside Climate News

  2023-03-09 by in Inside Climate News

A new batch of data about the country’s electricity generation shows the increasing dominance of one state as the clean energy leader. No, it’s not California. It’s Texas. This isn’t new. Texas has produced more gigawatt-hours of electricity from renewable sources than any other state for several years running, thanks largely to wind energy. Now, […]

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Texas | Electricity | California | Wind Power


Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: ‘Climate change playing out in real time’

  2023-02-24 in The Guardian

Parts of Texas, Arkansas, Ohio and Maryland, along with New York, are all recording their earliest spring conditions on record

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas


Two Years Ago, “Reliable Baseload” Gas, Coal, and Nuclear Failed in Texas Cold Outbreak

  2023-02-15 in Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair

Two years ago I was listening to chatter on Twitter (back when twitter was a lot more useful than it has become today) and picking up some serious concerns from experts that I knew around Texas, an…

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Coal | Texas


Mechanism of ozone loss under enhanced water vapour conditions in the mid-latitude lower stratosphere in summer

  2023-02-01 (or before) in ACP - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Abstract. Water vapour convectively injected into the mid-latitude lowermost stratosphere could affect stratospheric ozone. The associated potential ozone loss process requires low temperatures together with elevated water vapour mixing ratios. Since this ozone loss is initiated by heterogeneous chlorine activation on liquid aerosols, an increase in sulfate aerosol surface area due to a volcanic eruption or geoengineering could increase the likelihood of its occurrence. However, the chemical mechanism of this ozone loss process has not yet been analysed in sufficient detail and its sensitivity to various conditions is not yet cl...

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Texas | Geoengineering | Sea Level


Texas Scientists Rescue Record-High Numbers of Stranded Loggerhead Turtles, Investigate Causes

  2023-01-26 (or before) in coast.noaa.gov

NOAA's Office for Coastal Management provides the technology, information, and management strategies used by local, state, and national organizations to address complex coastal issues.

  Tagged under: Texas


A Hot, Dry 2022 by the Numbers

  2023-01-13 by in The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954

Our record-breaking summer provided a preview of what’s to come.

  Tagged under: Texas


Texas A&M Experts Explain Slowing Ocean Currents

  2022-11-08 by in Texas A&M Today - News from Texas A&M University

Professors in the College of Arts and Sciences analyze a system of ocean currents that is slowing over time and may cause abnormal weather.

  Tagged under: Oceans | Texas


The ill-fated Petra Nova CCS project: NRG Energy throws in the towel

  2022-10-11 (or before) in IEEFA | Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis

NRG Energy Inc. just sold its 50 percent stake in the world’s largest carbon capture plant for only about $3.6 million, less than a half-percent of the Texas project’s roughly $1 billion construction costs.

  Tagged under: Texas | Carbon Capture and Storage


Judge Upholds $14 Million Fine in Long-running Citizen Suit Against Exxon in Texas - Inside Climate News

  2022-09-02 by in Inside Climate News

A federal judge this week rejected a third appeal by ExxonMobil in the 12-year legal battle over toxic emissions from one of the Texas-based energy giant’s Gulf Coast facilities.  The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a $14.25 million fine—thought to be the largest-ever fine resulting from citizen enforcement of environmental law—in […]

  Tagged under: Exxon | Texas


$11 billion in 9 days—Texas’ natural gas sellers cashed in on deep freeze

  2022-07-25 (or before) in Ars Technica

State's gas supplies halved during cold snap, but sellers made record profits.

  Tagged under: Texas


‘All that’s needed is a spark’: why the US may be headed for a summer of mega-fire

  2022-07-07 in The Guardian

An explosive spring season has already burned more land than the 10-year average, with summers only expected to intensify

  Tagged under: Oregon | Wildfires | Drought | Texas | California | Alaska


Big Shock in Big Bend

  2022-06-29 by in The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954

No one alive has seen the Rio Grande as it looks today. A dry, cracking riverbed now snakes through Big Bend National Park.

  Tagged under: Rivers | Texas


Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas amid record heat and energy demand | CNN

  2022-06-14 by in CNN International

Energy experts told CNN the Texas electric grid is holding up well this week in large part to strong performances from renewable energy.

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Wind Power | Texas | Electricity Grid


How Texas’ power grid failed in 2021 — and who’s responsible for preventing a repeat

  2022-02-15 by in Texas Tribune

In the state’s power grid, electricity and natural gas are co-dependent. Here’s how the winter storm last year broke the system.

  Tagged under: Texas | Electricity | Electricity Grid


A Forgotten Oil Well Births a 100-Foot Geyser in West Texas

  2022-01-12 in texasmonthly.com

The salty water spewing high on a Crane County ranch could be a sign of a “whack-a-mole” future in the Permian Basin.

  Tagged under: Chevron | Texas


This Texas county shows exactly how Republicans are rolling back the clock on voting rights

  2021-12-29 (or before) in Mother Jones - Smart, fearless journalism

Galveston is a microcosm of the racial gerrymandering playing out throughout the South.

  Tagged under: Texas


This is what a year of climate disasters looked like

  2021-12-19 (or before) in YouTube

From -25C temperatures in Spain to a record-equalling 54.4C in Death Valley, the extremes of our climate are becoming more acute. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/...

  Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Texas | California | Louisiana | Greece


Inactive oil wells could be big source of methane emissions: Geologist studies greenhouse gas emissions from uncapped, idle wells in Texas

  2021-10-31 (or before) in Science Daily

Uncapped, idle oil wells could be leaking millions of kilograms of methane each year into the atmosphere and surface water, according to a new study.

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Drought | Greenhouse Gases | Methane | Texas


Climate change in Texas - Wikipedia

  2021-10-27 (or before) in Wikipedia

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas


Fossil Fuel Plant Run by William Koch at Heart of EPA Investigation into Racism in Texas’s Environmental Oversight

  2021-10-21 by in DeSmog

There are over 2,600 people living within three miles of Oxbow Corporation’s industrial plant in Port Arthur, Texas, a community that’s almost entirely people of color. And for 85 years, the Oxbow Calcining’s 112-acre plant has been processing oil and gas products into “petroleum coke,” which is commonly used to make steel and aluminum — […]

  Tagged under: Texas


Forward-looking Government & Corporate Climate Policy | Episode 10

  2021-09-22 in Climatrends: Climate Scenario Analysis & Consulting Services

On Episode 10 of Climatrends, we consult with Dr. Andrew Dessler, professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M & climate expert.

  Tagged under: Texas


There’s a ticking climate time bomb in West Texas

  2021-06-01 by in Vox

Biden faces a critical decision about the Permian Basin and its methane emissions from oil and gas.

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Methane | Climate Change | Texas


In oil-rich Texas, GOP lawmakers push bill to punish Wall Street for fossil fuel disinvestments

  2021-03-11 by in Texas Tribune

The bill would direct state investment funds to divest from companies that cut ties with fossil fuel companies, pitting Texas against some increasingly carbon-conscious Wall Street investors.

  Tagged under: Texas


Climate Change Is Tightening Insurance Markets. That’s No Good for the Solar Industry

  2021-03-08 (or before) in Greentech Media | Clean Tech & Renewable Energy News

Solar project developers are starting to feel the financial pressure from rising insurance costs.

  Tagged under: Solar Energy | Climate Change | Insurance | Texas


Fox News and Fox Business falsely blamed renewable energy for Texas blackouts 128 times over two days

  2021-02-24 (or before) in Media Matters for America

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Texas


How a Texas TV reporter gained the confidence to cover climate change

  2021-02-22 (or before) in Columbia Journalism Review

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas


Opinion | Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal (Published 2021)

  2021-02-21 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Texas


Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us | Robert Reich

  2021-02-21 in The Guardian

The Lone Star State is aptly named. If you’re not part of the Republican oil elite with Cruz and Abbott, you’re on your own

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Texas | US Politics


Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market

  2021-02-19 (or before) in Institute for New Economic Thinking | Institute for New Economic Thinking

Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable

  Tagged under: Texas | Electricity


Anger mounts over Texas power blackouts as cold maintains its grip

  2021-02-18 in The Guardian

At least 20 people have died across the country as water pipes burst and lines wrap around grocery stores

  Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Texas


Texas May Introduce Bill to Blacklist Anti-Fossil Fuel Companies

  2021-02-17 (or before) in Earther | Gizmodo

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that one of his “legislative priorities” this year is passing a bill to protect the fossil fuel industry by blacklisting businesses. He said on Thursday the potential rule could be modeled off a pro-Israel bill he pushed in 2017.

  Tagged under: Texas


How Much the Oil and Gas Industry Paid Lying Texas Republicans

  2021-02-17 (or before) in Earther | Gizmodo

As the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind the wind energy smears is a dizzying amount of fossil fuel money.

  Tagged under: Chevron | Economics | Texas | Wind Power | Finance


To ire of many, Perry claims Texans would suffer blackouts to avoid feds

  2021-02-17 (or before) by in Houston Chronicle | Breaking News, Houston, Texas, US, World News

Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice...

  Tagged under: Texas


A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids (Published 2021)

  2021-02-16 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change | Texas | Wind Power | Electricity Grid


Texas electric grid was at the mercy of cold weather - The Washington Post

  2021-02-16 in The Washington Post

The widespread power failures in Texas in the face of a winter cold snap shine a light on what some see as the derelict state of America’s electricity infrastructure, a mirror reflection of the chaos that struck California last summer.

  Tagged under: Electricity | Texas | California | Electricity Grid


Texas' move to control coal ash pollution could shield industry from tougher rules under Biden-led EPA

  2020-12-29 by in Texas Tribune

Texas is close to finalizing a years-long effort to wrangle control of coal ash pollution from the EPA, a move that could, for a time, keep coal companies insulated from tougher rules expected from the next administration.

  Tagged under: Joe Biden | Coal | Texas


The Wasteland Underwater

  2020-09-24 by in The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954

Lavaca Bay is already poisoned by mercury. Climate change will only make matters worse there—and at 944 other Superfund sites across the country.

  Tagged under: Texas | Climate Change


Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change - CBS News

  2020-01-05 (or before) in CBS News

Texas Gulf Coast project would shield petroleum industry, which is blamed for contributing to global warming and now wants safeguards against the consequences

  Tagged under: Global Warming | Lobbying | Oil Industry | Texas | Climate Change


It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible. (Published 2019)

  2019-12-12 in The New York Times

  Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Methane | Texas


Meat: A Threat to Our Planet? review – guaranteed to put you off your chicken nuggets

  2019-11-25 in The Guardian

Liz Bonnin’s investigation of the environmental mayhem caused by mass carnivory was meaty, disquieting viewing

  Tagged under: Deforestation | Farming | Rainforests | Amazon Rainforest | Texas | Cattle and Dairy Farming | Trees | Activism


What climate change will do to three major American cities by 2100

  2019-10-19 (or before) in Quartz | Make business better

How the worst-case climate scenario will play out, decade by decade, in St. Louis, San Francisco, and Houston.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | California | Cities | Texas


'People are in danger': the prisoners feeling the effects of US climate crisis

  2019-07-02 in The Guardian

A majority of Texas prisons have no air conditioning and no plans are in place to deal with global heating trends

  Tagged under: Texas


Here we go again: German research institute claims diesels are cleaner than EVs - Charged EVs

  2019-04-25 in Charged EVs | Electric Vehicles Magazine

Anti-EV hit pieces clog the blogosphere like pickup trucks on a Texas highway, but this one sounded much more serious than the usual anonymous speculation. A respected German research institute released a study claiming EVs are dirtier than diesel – music to the ears of many in the German auto industry. ‚ÄúConsidering Germany‚Äôs current energy... Read more »

  Tagged under: Electric Cars | EVs | Texas


Dakota Access Pipeline Builder Spends Millions To Influence Elections - PopularResistance.Org

  2016-09-09 in PopularResistance.Org

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — The corporation behind the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline also operates its own political action committee that has a record of donating to the campaigns of candidates who support the company’s pro-corporate, pro-fossil fuels agenda in Congress. However, the political war chest of the Energy Transfer Partners PAC amounts to pennies compared to the wealth of Kelcy Warren, the chairman and CEO, who has spent millions becoming one of the most politically powerful oil tycoons in Texas.

  Tagged under: US Politics | Texas | Fossil Fuels


Lawmakers Question Tax Exemption for Natural Gas

  2011-04-14 by in Texas Tribune

In a Texas House Appropriations Committee hearing this morning, natural gas producers fought back against suggestions that a major tax exemption they receive be rolled back.

  Tagged under: Texas


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