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The lieutenant governor's office says the transition would "improve air quality, create more Texas jobs, increase our energy independence and provide for the future energy needs of our growing population."
TCN Journal January 21, 2011
U.S. officials plan to take over part of a pollution-permit program that the state now manages. Texas alone is refusing to implement new federal rules to cut industrial emissions of heat-trapping gases.
TCN Journal December 23, 2010
Negotiators from around the world forged a "modest" climate agreement – but one with "breakthroughs." Meanwhile, Texas and its business allies failed to block federal climate regulations in court.
TCN Journal December 12, 2010
The state's editorial and op-ed writers have expressed a lot of opinions lately on the interlinking subjects of climate change, energy policy and how to make Texas a more sustainable place.
TCN Journal Texas Comment December 9, 2010
Republicans will target climate science, greenhouse rules in Congress. GOP gains in the Texas House may not doom cleaner-energy bills. In California, climate-action advocates clobbered "Texas oil."
TCN Journal November 3, 2010
All other states are preparing to avoid delays in industrial construction with air plans that enable permits to limit climate-altering pollutants, an organization of state and local officials concluded.
TCN Journal October 29, 2010
A poll shows falling support for an initiative to suspend California's law to slash greenhouse gases. The law's defenders are focusing attention on Texas companies behind the "dirty" proposition.
TCN Journal October 27, 2010
Texas' top environmental official asked judges to "expedite" their recommendation on a Corpus Christi power plant so state approval might be granted before Jan. 2, when U.S. regulations take effect.
TCN Journal October 24, 2010
In a new letter to federal officials, Texas stayed on a collision course with the Obama administration over regulations to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from some major industrial sources.
TCN Journal October 6, 2010
A pair of federal grants will enable research on capturing and storing CO2 from industrial plants. Environmentalist critics aren't happy, however, about advancing "clean coal."
TCN Journal September 13, 2010
An independent investigation by a prominent international audit firm has undercut one of Texas' arguments in a petition against federal regulation of climate-changing greenhouse gases.
TCN Journal August 26, 2010
Texas universities and colleges have been in the news lately because of assorted developments related to cleaner energy, energy conservation and associated subjects.
TCN Journal August 25, 2010
An unsurprising question is being asked in some quarters: Could the recent weather extremes be evidence of manmade global warming and climate change?
TCN Journal August 12, 2010
Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision last week to delay – at least – Senate action on a comprehensive energy-climate bill carried a variety of implications for Texas.
TCN Journal July 28, 2010
Butterflies. Religion. Undersea methane from the BP spill. Solar technology. Texas scientists and engineers have been in the news lately because of their work in a variety of areas.
TCN Journal July 3, 2010
Journalists for two national-audience publications that focus on climate issues recently trained their attention on developments in Texas schools.
TCN Journal June 18, 2010
It’s time for another of TCN Journal’s occasional roundups of Texas commentary on climate change, energy policy and related matters.
TCN Journal Texas Comment May 26, 2010
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was "highly misleading" and "overreach(ing)" in his claim that federal officials "outsourced" their finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous.
TCN Journal May 12, 2010
Texas environmentalists can be more influential and less united than some might suppose, as a climate-related agreement involving one key advocacy group illustrated this week.
TCN Journal April 21, 2010
As TCN Journal reported recently, three Texas cities were lower in the federal government's 2009 ranking of cities with the most energy-efficient commercial buildings than they were on the 2008 list.
TCN Journal April 8, 2010
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