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Four Texas cities declined from 2008 to 2009 in federal rankings of cities with the most energy-efficient commercial buildings earning the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star label.
TCN Journal March 24, 2010
New legal petitions by states and others, combined with Democrats’ historic congressional victory Sunday night on health care reform, are further complicating the multifaceted struggle over federal climate policy.
TCN Journal March 23, 2010
Last week, the Met Office – Britain’s National Weather Service – released a review of more than 100 scientific studies since the last major U.N.-sponsored overview of global warming research in 2007.
TCN Journal March 11, 2010
Scientists at Texas A&M University immediately took issue when top state officials cast doubt on scientific findings about climate change last month in their formal effort to block regulation of atmosphere-warming pollutants.
TCN Journal March 8, 2010
Ben Geman of the Washington-based newspaper The Hill reported that wind-power producers quickly pushed back, using a job-focused argument of their own to argue that the proposal's effect would actually be contrary to the stated intent.
TCN Journal March 4, 2010
After Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott formally challenged the federal conclusion that greenhouse gases are harmful pollutants, the Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger asked if he had consulted with any of Texas’ own “eminent climate scientists” before filing petitions that dismiss scientific conclusions about global warming as the product of “colluding and scheming.”
TCN Journal February 24, 2010
By the time that an official deadline passed this week, only two other states – Alabama and Virginia – had followed Texas in filing petitions challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding that climate-changing greenhouse gases threaten human health and the environment.
TCN Journal February 19, 2010
No matter how often scientists repeat that individual weather events and long-range climate trends are not the same thing, global warming skeptics like to cite extreme episodes of winter weather to argue that there isn't really much cause for concern.
TCN Journal February 14, 2010
Texas has no shortage of high-level complaints about possible regulations to fight manmade climate change, but you won’t hear them in the executive offices at Houston-based Calpine Corp.
TCN Journal February 5, 2010
Yet another national poll shows recent slippage in public agreement that global warming is happening and manmade, as a huge majority of scientists believe.
TCN Journal January 27, 2010
ust because a company takes actions to reduce greenhouse gases – and talks about them explicitly in the context of manmade climate change – it doesn't necessarily follow that the company's top official thinks manmade climate change is a problem. Or that it even exists.
TCN Journal January 6, 2010
Parsing of last week's outcome of the international climate conference in Denmark began within moments of the announcement of a non-binding agreement, dubbed the Copenhagen Accord. Was it a tragic failure to tackle the looming threat of climate change or a valuable if insufficient step toward doing just that? Proponents of both viewpoints have spoken out.
TCN Journal December 23, 2009
Editorial writers and columnists have had a good deal to say in Texas newspapers lately about recent developments related to global warming and the attendant policy debates. In this entry of TCN Journal, we present the first in an occasional series of posts that will summarize and provide links to some of what is being said by opinion journalists, op-ed writers and bloggers.
TCN Journal Texas Comment December 15, 2009
Now there's more evidence indicating that Texas – contrary to some statistics and some perceptions – is a leader in energy efficiency. According to some criteria, at least.
TCN Journal November 11, 2009
A new poll has found that a plurality of Texans oppose a federal cap-and-trade bill to reduce greenhouse emissions, while a sizable majority favor state rules requiring efficiency measures to accomplish the same goal.
TCN Journal November 5, 2009
Is Texas a national leader on energy efficiency or is it lagging somewhere in the middle of the pack? The answer is yes to both questions, according to a new report by a prominent efficiency-promoting group. It depends on what criteria are used to do the measuring.
TCN Journal November 2, 2009
Five Texas electric utilities – companies and co-ops serving the Houston, Amarillo, El Paso and Denton areas – secured almost $260 million in federal stimulus funds this week for "smart grid" projects aimed as boosting their systems' efficiency and reliability.
TCN Journal October 29, 2009
The idea that the global average temperature is actually cooling – not warming, as most climate scientists believe – seems to have a fair number of supporters on the Internet.
TCN Journal October 28, 2009
Litigation has long played a powerful role in shaping policies on a variety of environmental issues. Add global warming to the list. Recent rulings in a pair of federal lawsuits with strong Texas connections illustrate how judges are starting to grapple with allegations of harm resulting from manmade climate change.
TCN Journal October 22, 2009
Is Texas, the state with the biggest coal consumption, headed into another round of high-profile battles over new coal-fired electricity generation?
TCN Journal October 9, 2009
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