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The coal-fired facility is now a testing ground for a technology that could soon help transform the cement industry’s voluminous greenhouse-gas emissions into mountains of innocuous baking soda and other industrial products.
TCN Journal May 31, 2015
Texas residents, like most Americans, overwhelming agree global warming is happening, worry that it will harm future generations and support anti-pollution regulation to stem it, researchers reported.
TCN Journal April 7, 2015
Part of Texas was warmer than average last year, part was cooler, as was the case with North America as a whole. But warmer conditions prevailed across most of the rest of the planet, NOAA and NASA declared.
TCN Journal January 17, 2015
Foreign Policy magazine placed the climate scientist and evangelical Christian on its “100 Leading Global Thinkers” roster for 2014. In April, Time listed her as one of the year’s “100 most influential people” in the world.
TCN Journal November 18, 2014
Each age group favored policies to cut climate-disrupting pollution more than the next-oldest group in the latest edition of the national poll by the business school at the University of Texas
TCN Journal November 3, 2014
Climate Central's interactive map portrayed Texas and other cities' projected summer highs. The World Meteorological Organization, meanwhile, urged water planners and others to consider hotter conditions occurring now. [With interactive graphic.]
TCN Journal July 23, 2014
A federal appeals court reversed a ruling, sought by a conservation coalition, which temporarily halted new water-use permits in river systems feeding the endangered species' winter habitat on the Texas coast.
TCN Journal July 1, 2014
Gov. Rick Perry said the new regulations were meant to "appease" only "a tiny sliver of environmental extremists." Opinion surveys found about two-thirds of all Americans back the climate-protection initiative, however.
TCN Journal June 20, 2014
Energy and economic experts said the EPA's new rules for existing power plants can be a net economic benefit for the state, especially by boosting its natural gas, wind and solar industries to replace coal burning.
TCN Journal June 6, 2014
"We have to adapt because the climate is changing," California Gov. Jerry Brown declared. There's been no such talk from Texas' top officials, of course, but drought adaptation is getting serious consideration all the same.
TCN Journal SNAPSHOTS OF THE DROUGHT May 21, 2014
“The facts are, our area is warmer, and the facts are, there’s no indication at this point that it’s going to cool down," researcher B.A. "Bob" Stewart, an agriculture expert with nearly half a century of professional experience in the region, told TCN.
TCN Journal May 15, 2014
Two scientific teams' findings about the West Antarctic ice sheet mean "we may have reached a tipping point" that signals faster sea-level rise than anticipated, said one Texas scientist who focuses on Gulf issues.
TCN Journal May 13, 2014
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and evangelical Christian, is on the Time 100 list along with the singer Beyonce, Pope Francis, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, President Barack Obama and Fox News’ Washington bureau chief Megyn Kelly.
TCN Journal April 25, 2014
Even without the credit, positive reports continue to appear about the outlook for more wind power in Texas. One recent assessment called it "Texas' hottest energy prospect" and predicted "a new surge of wind farm development."
TCN Journal March 7, 2014
California's perilous drought has been in the news lately. The situation in Texas is not so dire now, but dry conditions persist in the Lone Star State – with distinct echoes of California's plight.
TCN Journal SNAPSHOTS OF THE DROUGHT February 13, 2014
The Climate Central report was one of various responses to suggestions that the “polar vortex” cold spell cast doubt on manmade global warming. A common theme: Short-term weather isn't the same as a long-term climate trend.
TCN Journal January 11, 2014
Texas is "one of the more vulnerable states" to "abrupt climate changes and to the abrupt impact of gradual climate changes,” the sole Texas scientist on the National Research Council committee that issued the report told TCN.
TCN Journal December 11, 2013
In its Winter Outlook for climate conditions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said drought will probably make a comeback in Texas and neighboring areas. Meanwhile, drought-related tussles and problems continue.
TCN Journal November 22, 2013
Texans approved a constitutional amendment to allocate $2 billion in a one-time transfer from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to pay for water-supply and water-conservation projects.
TCN Journal November 4, 2013
Industrial facilities in Texas told the EPA they emitted about 393 million metric tons of CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases last year – 12.5 percent of the nationwide total of 3.13 billion metric tons.
TCN Journal October 25, 2013
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