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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks
2024-03-07 in blog.ucsusa.orgOur 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 WikipediaTagged under: Wildfires | Texas
Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warning
2024-03-02 in The New York TimesWe’re entering clima incognita.
Tagged under: Texas | Wildfires
A visual guide to the Texas wildfire
2024-03-01 in The GuardianWhat 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 HillCANADIAN, 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 BBCFlames 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 ServiceTagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Data | Texas
February 27-28, 2024 -- Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas
2024-02-27 in CNN InternationalAn 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 NewsFast-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 TribuneThe 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 CNNAn 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 TelegramIn 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 NewsSome 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 BloombergA new analysis finds it’s not uncommon for people to move away from their street or neighborhood due to flood risk.
Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa
2023-10-30 by in DeSmogCommunities 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 PROA 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 GuardianEach 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 GuardianThe 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 GuardianSmall 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 GuardianFarris 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 GuardianNearly 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 PROA 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 GuardianGreg 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 EnergiewendeIn 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 NewsState 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 AmericaThroughout 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 TimesThe energy transition will be volatile | Financial Times
2023-07-01 (or before) in Financial TimesAlso 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 GuardianPower 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 GuardianDetroit 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 GuardianState 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 GuardianNew 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 GuardianMeasure 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 NewsNatural 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 SciencesAGU 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 AxiosTagged under: Texas | Extreme Heat
Triple-digit heat across Texas is forecast to break energy records | CNN
2023-06-15 by in CNNSummer 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 BBCExperts in the region say it is due to a depletion of oxygen after high water temperatures.
Texas Senate Moves To Shut Down Renewable Energy Permanently - Reform Austin
2023-05-26 in Reform Austin News - Drawing Attention to What MattersWith 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 GuardianAdvocates warn plants like the latest addition to the Texas complex generate hazardous pollutants and provide cover for oil giants to produce new plastic products
Tomlinson: Experts slam $10B grid plan, GOP approves anyway
2023-04-10 (or before) by in Houston Chronicle | Breaking News, Houston, Texas, US, World NewsTexas 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 - ChronA 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 NewsA 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 GuardianParts 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 SinclairTwo 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 PhysicsAbstract. 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.govNOAA'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 1954Our 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 UniversityProfessors in the College of Arts and Sciences analyze a system of ocean currents that is slowing over time and may cause abnormal weather.
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 AnalysisNRG 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 NewsA 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 […]
$11 billion in 9 days—Texas’ natural gas sellers cashed in on deep freeze
2022-07-25 (or before) in Ars TechnicaState'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 GuardianAn 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 1954No one alive has seen the Rio Grande as it looks today. A dry, cracking riverbed now snakes through Big Bend National Park.
Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas amid record heat and energy demand | CNN
2022-06-14 by in CNN InternationalEnergy 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 TribuneIn 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.comThe salty water spewing high on a Crane County ranch could be a sign of a “whack-a-mole” future in the Permian Basin.
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 journalismGalveston 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 YouTubeFrom -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 DailyUncapped, 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 WikipediaTagged 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 DeSmogThere 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 ServicesOn 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 VoxBiden 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 TribuneThe 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 NewsSolar 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 AmericaTagged under: Renewable Energy | Texas
How a Texas TV reporter gained the confidence to cover climate change
2021-02-22 (or before) in Columbia Journalism ReviewTagged under: Climate Change | Texas
Opinion | Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal (Published 2021)
2021-02-21 in The New York TimesTagged under: Texas
Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide us | Robert Reich
2021-02-21 in The GuardianThe 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 ThinkingTexas’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 GuardianAt 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 | GizmodoTexas 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 | GizmodoAs 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 NewsFormer 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 TimesTagged 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 PostThe 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 TribuneTexas 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 1954Lavaca 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 NewsTexas 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 TimesTagged 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 GuardianLiz 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 betterHow 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 GuardianA 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 MagazineAnti-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.OrgBy 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 TribuneIn 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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