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May 18, 2015
The impending demise of Denton’s brief ban on fracking is a potent example of the oil and gas industry’s continuing primacy in the state and reminder that those who challenge it risk forceful political blowback.
January 30, 2015 ELECTION ANALYSIS: CONGRESS
November’s mid-term election, in which voters handed Republicans big majorities in both houses of Congress, set the stage for a multifaceted battle over climate change that’s just getting started.
November 12, 2014 ELECTION ANALYSIS: LOCAL VOTES
The ballot measure’s outcome in the North Texas city was closely watched – in Texas and beyond – for its possible influence in other local fights over the drilling method and significance for the broader climate issue.
September 22, 2014 TCN INTERVIEW
The People’s Climate March in September was billed as “the largest climate march in history.” An estimated 400,000 marched in New York, plus tens of thousands in more than 2,800 events in 166 countries.
June 24, 2014
The federal agency got "almost everything it wanted,” Justice Antonin Scalia said of a 7-2 ruling that upheld a key part of the Obama administration's regulations to cut industrial emissions of climate-altering pollution.
April 30, 2014
Longtime, mostly urban, environmental advocates traded policy ideas recently with property-rights activists from rural areas. Will the fledgling alliance have staying power? San Antonio writer Greg Harman reports.
April 12, 2014
The report "highlights how climate change is expected to interact with, and in many cases exacerbate, problems we already struggle with today in Texas," Texas Tech scientist Katharine Hayhoe told TCN.
October 12, 2013
A U.N.-sponsored panel, comprising researchers from 39 countries, said scientists are now 95 percent certain that humans are the main cause of global warming. TCN asked Texas climate experts for their reactions to the report.
October 4, 2013 TCN INTERVIEW
The aim of the conference, planned in response to a class assignment at UT's LBJ School, was to identify "collaborative solutions" to help make the Austin region more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
September 3, 2013 TCN Interview
South by Southwest (often, just SXSW) famously showcases music, film and digital technologies each March. SXSW Eco, scheduled Oct. 7-9 this year, has a broader aim – helping to achieve "a sustainable and prosperous future."
July 3, 2013
As another threat to rooftop solar power is blocked in San Antonio, a nationwide question looms: What will become of utility claims that programs encouraging residential solar hurt the poor? Greg Harman examines the issues for TCN.
June 17, 2013 TCN Interview
The Houstonian discussed a voluntary, market-based initiative that would conserve natural areas near the coast to buffer storm surges and offset greenhouse emissions. A Rice University conference addressed the concept.
May 15, 2013
Austin-based journalist Ari Phillips, reporting on his recent travels in Central Texas, examines the Hill Country's famed springs as a microcosm of complex water issues facing all of the state and most of the Western U.S.
April 17, 2013
There was some ambiguity in the combined picture that emerged from the surveys regarding public opinion on the seriousness of the threats that climate change poses and what should be done about it.
February 10, 2013
Don't have time to go through the new, 1,146-page National Climate Assessment to get an idea of what it says about Texas? TCN did it for you, locating and selecting a representative sample of pertinent graphics.
November 24, 2012
Environmentalists worked to defeat candidates dubbed "climate-change deniers," including a Texan. National polls show more concern about climate change. And a "carbon tax" is being discussed, with Exxon-Mobil among the backers.
October 21, 2012
The organic waste on dairy farms and in landfills can yield a treasured resource – methane, main component of natural gas. David Barer examines the subject for Texas Climate News and Reporting Texas.
August 21, 2012 TCN Interview
The biologist answered TCN's questions about the outbreak of West Nile virus in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, explaining what scientists know – and have yet to learn – about links between climate and the mosquito-borne disease.
August 6, 2012
Still recovering from Hurricane Ike, the island city faces issues common along Texas' perennially storm-threatened coast. Residents and officials confront interrelated natural hazards in deciding where building occurs.
June 29, 2012
Depletion of Ogallala groundwater heralds reduced irrigation. Coupled with higher projected temperatures, this will force many farmers to turn to dryland agiculture with drought-tolerant crops, one researcher predicts.
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