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Report: As TCEQ sits idle, polluters double illegal air pollution in 2018. Texas Observer EPA watchdog: Health monitoring after Harvey was lacking. AP Natural gas boom fizzles as a U.S. glut sinks profits. New York Times Could climate change lead to more extreme hailstorms in Dallas-Fort Worth? Dallas Morning News Texas among top states in country to cut funds to environmental agencies. Houston Chronicle Railroad Commission sued for lax oversight of natural gas flaring. Texas Tribune Has Christopher Brown seen Houston's future? Texas Monthly
More Climate News January 1, 2020
Louisiana Republican Garret Graves takes on key role in addressing climate change state politics. The Advocate Nearly $226M to restore open Gulf after 2010 BP oil spill. AP Chemical companies are building their plants overseas and shipping them back in. They still get state tax breaks. ProPublica
More Climate News January 1, 2020
Death toll rises as Australian bushfires rage out of control, produce dangerous air quality. AccuWeather Trump attacks on wind turbines, low-flow toilets, and LED lightbulbs set up key campaign clash with Democrats. Washington Post Is nuclear power worth the risk? New Yorker Scientists say Amazon rainforest is at 'tipping point' and parts could transform into savanna. Washington Post Freight railroads funded climate denial for decades. Atlantic COP25 UN climate change conference ends with doubts about global unity. Washington Post Alaska climate change: Facing catastrophe, this town can’t quit big oil. Washington Post China responsible for 90 percent of the world's carbon emissions? No, it's closer to 30 percent. AFP
More Climate News January 1, 2020
How 100% renewables backfired on a Texas town. E&E News Rex Tillerson back in spotlight at Exxon climate trial. Houston Chronicle After Harvey, Texas enacts tougher flood disclosure law to help home buyers. NPR Residential solar not catching on in Houston like other cities. Houston Chronicle Unlikely alliance fighting pipeline in Texas Hill Country. AP What climate change will do to three major American cities by 2100. Quartz Despite their promises, giant energy companies burn away vast amounts of natural gas. New York Times Austin Parks Department gets grant to study health, climate change. Austin American-Statesman
More Climate News November 5, 2019
New Mexico’s oil boom: Bounty for one of the country’s poorest states. New York Times Workshops help marginalized Louisiana residents become climate leaders. Yale Climate Connections 'Bird emergency': Louisiana birds among those facing greatest threats from climate change; here's why. NOLA.com Oklahoma reacts to changing climate. The Oklahoman
More Climate News November 5, 2019
Trump serves notice to quit Paris Climate Agreement. New York Times Trump administration eases Obama-era rules on coal pollution. AP Big automakers take risks in siding with Trump administration against California. Washington Post Flood of oil is coming, complicating efforts to fight global warming. New York Times England suspends fracking after new study threatens powerful earthquakes. Newsweek Why carbon capture hasn’t saved us from climate change yet. FiveThirtyEight India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low. Independent Surging SUV demand is canceling out the environmental benefit from electric cars. CNBC
More Climate News November 5, 2019
Repeat flooding has residents asking: Is Houston worth it? Houston Chronicle In Houston, a rash of storms tests the limits of coping with climate change. New York Times Environmentalists to map methane emissions in largest US oilfield. Courthouse News Service This was Austin's hottest September ever recorded. And it wasn't even close. KUT How Texans on the Gulf Coast are taking on plastic pollution. Texas Monthly Houston company proposes crude oil pipeline across Edwards Aquifer. Rivard Report
More Climate News October 4, 2019
Trump admin ignored its own evidence of climate change's impact on migration from Central America. NBC In first for energy industry, Freeport-McMoRan to settle Louisiana lawsuits aimed at restoring coast. NOLA.com Hot Springs, Arkansas is switching over to 100 percent solar energy, joining only 6 other cities in the U.S. Newsweek
More Climate News October 4, 2019
'We're all in big trouble': Climate panel sees a dire future. AP 'Swampy symbiosis': Fossil fuel industry has more clout than ever under Trump. The Guardian Birds are vanishing from North America. New York Times The endless bummer: 2019 was the warmest summer in modern history. The Guardian At UN Climate Summit, few commitments and U.S. silence. New York Times Meet the lawyers beating back Trump’s reckless environmental policies. Rolling Stone Why California is standing firm against Trump on auto emissions. Yale Environment 360
More Climate News October 4, 2019
Crabs and shrimp are looking for love, finding sickness at the polluted Deepwater Horizon spill site. NOLA.com Inside New Mexico’s fight to stop using coal. Santa Fe New Mexican Where do Louisiana governor candidates stand on climate change? The Advocate Activists claim win against chemical plant at heart of Guardian's Cancer Town series. The Guardian
More Climate News September 25, 2019
Company announces $14 billion deal to build Texas Bullet Train. Houston Chronicle Houston climate protesters charged with violating 'infrastructure law': sheriff. Reuters Vehicle to grid? Tech hub takes a look. E&E News Australian oil company eyes pristine corner of West Texas. Courthouse News Texas draining four lakes as aging infrastructure faces catastrophe - causing other problems. Texas Tribune Climate change an increasing concern for Texas voters, poll finds. Houston Chronicle Harris County boosts pollution efforts, staff in response to spring chemical fires. Houston Chronicle New report shows air pollution from plastics plants in greater Houston is getting worse. Houston Public Media Industry-funded group calls for natural gas to be part of Houston's climate plan. Houston Chronicle
More Climate News September 15, 2019
The Energy 202: House rebukes Trump with bills banning drilling off coasts. Washington Post Report: Trump pushed top aides to get NOAA to backtrack on tweet contradicting him. The Week Trump opens protected Alaskan Arctic refuge to oil drillers. The Guardian Climate change poses major risk to flood insurance program, experts warn. The Hill Extreme weather displaced a record 7 million in first half of 2019. New York Times How Big Oil blocked the nation’s greenest governor on climate change. InsideClimate News Trump defends lightbulb efficiency rollback: ‘I look better under an incandescent light.’ The Hill Summer heatwaves caused 1,500 more deaths than usual in France, minister says. France 24 White House prepares to revoke California’s right to set tougher pollution rules. New York Times
More Climate News September 15, 2019
CNN climate town hall: 6 winners and 3 losers. Vox Rolling back the regulation established under 2007 law could cost $14 billion a year. Washington Post Hurricane Dorian's fiercest winds and highest storm surge slammed Grand Bahama for at least 40 hours straight. Washington Post Hurricane Dorian becomes the 5th Atlantic category 5 in 4 years. Weather Channel ‘It's really close’: How the Amazon rainforest could self-destruct. New York Times Trump's methane rule rollback divides oil and gas industry. New York Times July was Earth's hottest month on record. CNN UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future. AP
More Climate News September 7, 2019
Wind developers, once keen on Mexico, losing heart as energy reforms stall. Houston Chronicle 'God told me to fight' - Inside the battle to stop another petrochemical plant in "Cancer Alley." Mother Jones 'People are dying': How the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US. Guardian A Louisiana Republican reckons with climate change. New Yorker
More Climate News September 7, 2019
Houston plans large solar farm to revitalize Sunnyside neighborhood. KUHF Climate Change will drive up energy use in Texas and beyond. Texas Observer One small city beat the Texas heat that sent power price soaring. Bloomberg Lady Bird Lake's dog-killing algae isn't spreading, but climate change could one day make it worse. KUT Plastics industry accounts for one-fourth of Houston-area industrial air pollution, report finds. Houston Chronicle Rice scientists develop clean tech to transform carbon dioxide into fuels. Houston Chronicle On the brink of blackouts, Texas makes case for new plants. Bloomberg Heat wave: Galveston had a 100+ degree heat index for 40 straight hours. Washington Post
More Climate News September 7, 2019
Nurdle by nurdle, citizens took on a billion-dollar plastic company and won. Texas Observer There's a new EPA air sheriff in town, and she's got a shaky grasp on climate. Grist Teen activists host town hall on climate change. Houston Chronicle EPA orders Houston lab staff to relocate to Oklahoma. E&E News Many Texans think fossil fuel companies should pay for climate change, poll finds. Houston Chronicle A leader of America's fracking boom has second thoughts. Wall Street Journal
More Climate News July 9, 2019
As plant faces closure, New Mexico city weighs bet on clean coal technology. & the West Mexico hailstorm blankets western areas under 3 feet of ice. New York Times Louisiana law turning pipeline protests into felonies violates Constitution, new lawsuit alleges. DeSmog
More Climate News July 9, 2019
It's the end of the world as they know it: the distinct burden of being a climate scientist. Mother Jones Climate campaigners 'greatest threat' to oil sector: OPEC. Agence France-Presse Booming LNG industry could be as bad for climate as coal, experts warn. Guardian US oil companies find energy independence isn't so profitable. New York Times Nuclear power, once seen as impervious to climate change, threatened by heat waves. US News Existing fossil fuel plants will push the world across a dangerous climate limit, research finds. Washington Post US produces far more waste and recycles far less of it than other developed countries. Guardian Amid urgent climate warnings, EPA gives coal a reprieve. Associated Press
More Climate News July 9, 2019
Beto O'Rourke calls for a 'moonshot' to end climate change. NPR Mess with a Texas pipeline now and you could end up a felon. Grist Cheap construction, government targets, lots of wind spur wind development. Houston Chronicle Climate activists rally to urge San Antonio to adopt its delayed climate plan. San Antonio Current The world's first zero-carbon oilfield could be coming to Texas - Maybe? KUT Climate change debate in the focus at Exxon's annual meeting. Associated Press
More Climate News June 19, 2019
World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, U.N. report finds. NBC The right to a stable climate is the constitutional question of the twenty-first century. New Yorker How climate change transformed Germany's Greens into the country's most popular political party. Los Angeles Times Britain to become first G7 country with net zero emissions target. Reuters In hot water? Study says warming may reduce sea life by 17%. Associated Press 3 Republican former EPA heads rebuke Trump EPA on climate policy & science. InsideClimate News Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action. Guardian
More Climate News June 19, 2019
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