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Texas Climate News, launched in 2008, is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan, online magazine, written and edited by independent journalists. We publish reporting and analysis about climate and sustainability.
We work in the public interest and base our coverage on traditional journalistic principles of independence, accuracy and fairness.
We don’t publish editorials, commentaries or other opinion-based articles. We don’t advocate policies or endorse candidates. Writers’ critical evaluations of policy alternatives in analysis articles do not represent editorial endorsements by Texas Climate News.
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We work to enhance Texas citizens’ (and others’) knowledge and understanding of important developments in science, government, business, citizen action and other areas. We want to help inform the public dialogue as Texans and others confront a changing climate and work to build more sustainable futures for themselves and their descendants.
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History
Texas Climate News was conceived and launched in 2008 by founding editor Bill Dawson, a Texas journalist who began covering climate change in 1988 when he was the Houston Chronicle’s environment writer.
TCN was published from 2008-15 by the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Our journalists were not HARC employees during that period and made all editorial decisions independently.