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City governments, like other human institutions, like to be seen as doing a good job. In several of Texas' major cities this year, achieving that goal has involved letting the public know about their new solar power initiatives – often in superlative terms that don't always readily lend themselves to simple comparisons.
TCN Journal October 2, 2009
A personnel shift at the top of the state's lead environmental agency is not expected to bring with it any change in Texas' official approach to climate change. The moves at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality appear to underscore Gov. Rick Perry's forceful and often-expressed skepticism about manmade global warming
TCN Journal September 8, 2009
Weather is not climate, scientists remind us. lt’s wrong, then, to attribute the current record-setting Texas drought, which began in 2008 and has continued to grip much of the state this year, to human-caused climate change.
TCN Journal September 1, 2009
Texas industry and government officials seeking to fuel opposition to the energy/climate policies being pursued by the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress may find little consolation in a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday.
TCN Journal August 29, 2009
Newspapers have been faulted by some critics for inadequate depth and context in their reporting – and that criticism started long before their big recent cuts in staffing levels and the amount of space devoted to the stories that the remaining reporters produce.
TCN Journal August 24, 2009
Houston will be the site on Tuesday for the start of what news organizations including Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, along with environmentalists, have called an “astroturfing” campaign against the House-passed cap-and-trade climate bill.
TCN Journal August 17, 2009
What can Houstonians tell the rest of the world about climate change? French documentary filmmakers felt that they would have a lot to say about mass evacuation from a catastrophic climate event.
TCN Journal July 31, 2009
Austinites – a good number of them, anyway – imagine their city becoming a (maybe even the) "green energy capital" of the United States.
TCN Journal July 15, 2009
A free-market think tank headquartered in Dallas was spotlighted in a British newspaper’s recent story on the latest round of sparring between Texas-based ExxonMobil and environmentalists.
TCN Journal July 8, 2009
A decade ago, Los Angeles and Houston were vying in a media-documented “race” for the unwanted crown of smog capital of America – the metro area with the worst record for ground-level ozone pollution.
TCN Journal July 3, 2009
Could Texas become the capital of a resurgent nuclear power industry? This TCN Journal entry provides an annotated guide to some of the recent news coverage on the possibility of a nuclear revival in Texas and elsewhere.
TCN Journal July 2, 2009
Texas Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives played a key role in helping secure the narrow passage last Friday of the American Clean Energy and Security Act – the Waxman-Markey bill, which would create a cap-and-trade system to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
TCN Journal June 29, 2009
The intensifying effort to pass the Waxman-Markey climate change bill in the U.S. House of Representatives provided an understandable occasion for Gov. Rick Perry and other top Texas officials to reiterate their longstanding opposition to federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.
TCN Journal June 19, 2009
To mark the start of the 2009 hurricane season on Monday, Texas A&M University researchers released a new study projecting that rising seas and stronger hurricanes caused by global warming will considerably increase flooding damage from such storms in the Corpus Christi area.
TCN Journal June 2, 2009
It can fairly be said that Texas took at least an indirect licking in last year’s presidential campaign and election. It wasn’t just that the Republican candidate, John McCain, won a sizable majority of Texans’ votes but was thumped in the national tally.
TCN Journal May 28, 2009
No one ever said Texas’ government officials and academics were all on the same page when it comes to global warming.
TCN Journal May 15, 2009
You might expect that the top prize in a contest to produce YouTube-friendly videos promoting solar power in Texas would be won by a 20-year-old college student. If so, you would be wrong.
TCN Journal May 1, 2009
Texas became the No. 1 state in wind-power generation in 2006. Last year, it lengthened that lead, according to an annual ranking report issued Monday by the American Wind Energy Association.
TCN Journal April 14, 2009
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Everett Dirksen, the memorable Illinois Republican who served in the Senate from 1951 until his death in 1969, supposedly uttered that famous quip about the federal budget.
TCN Journal April 4, 2009
Texas’ four largest metropolitan areas appear on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the 25 metro areas with the largest numbers of buildings in 2008 that earned the EPA’s Energy Star rating for energy efficiency.
TCN Journal March 20, 2009
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