Tag: Texas - Page 5
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Much Of US South Experiencing Extreme Drought - Let The Water Wars Begin
Large swaths of US southern states are experiencing severe drought
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Activists Head to World Series: "Beat Texas, Vote No on Prop 23"
Photo: Kevin Ward via Flickr/CC BY The World Series & Prop 23: Giants vs. Rangers, CA vs. Texas Oil? This year's World Series, as you're likely aware, features a showdown between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers. It's an interesting
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Texas Food Factory Closes After 5 Reported Deaths
According to a story on Mother Nature Network, the SanGar plant in San Antonio, Texas was closed after health officials linked six of 10 known cases of listeriosis to chopped celery produced at the plant. Five deaths have been
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Midwest Still At Risk Of Getting Texified By Oil Pipelines & Refineries
A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700%, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada. At
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Texas Will Refuse To Implement Federal Permitting Rule On Greenhouse Gas Emissions
USEPA is proposing that, by this coming January, permit applications for especially energy intensive operations cover greenhouse
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From Austin to Santa Cruz NRDC's Rates the US's Smarter Cities for Energy
There are lots of things that go into making a city more environmentally friendly--from sufficient density, to adequate public transportation, to superior walkability, to good green spaces--but a key part of all that is
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21 Year Old "Cathedral of Junk" Dismantled After Neighbours Complain
Austin used to be funky; as the Wall Street Journal notes, "For decades a college town with abundant cheap housing, Austin was a magnet for hippies, slackers and musicians looking for a care-free
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Bercy Chen Buries a High-Tech Update of a Traditional Pit-House
The Red Bluff house is a little
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Florida May Be 'Out Of The Loop' - Bad For Texas And Louisiana Shorelines
As reported in the Miami Herald, physical oceanographers are tracking a notable change in the Gulf 'loop current.' "...over the
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South Carolina Luring Gulf Tourists Fleeing "BPina" Tar Balls
The competition is wondering what will happen to the Redneck Riviera tourist market this year, and ready to take advantage of changing plans. Tar
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BP's Blowout Could Be 'The Three Mile Island of Offshore Drilling'
I'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in
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Is The BP Spill Big Enough To Resuscitate The Environmental Movement?
Floating residues from the ongoing BP oil 'blowout' in the Gulf are expansive enough to be easily visible from space. Satellite photos of oil on salt water
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The Anatomy of an Oil Spill Cleanup: What Works and What Doesn't
Preston Kott of U.S. Environmental Services moves oil absorbent boom into a warehouse at a pollution control staging area in Venice, La., April 27, 2010. Staging areas are being set up along the Gulf coast as the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to
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Fact: Texas Coal-Fired Power Plants Release More Mercury Than Those In Any Other US State
Using publicly available data maintained by USEPA, an Environmental Integrity Project report lists Texas as having five of the 10 largest power plant mercury air
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Post Cap & Trade, Manufacturing Jobs Will Move To US States With Greener Power, Not China
A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal
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Texas Sets New Wind Power Record with 6,272-Megawatt Peak
Photo: Public domain For a Little While, %19 of the State's Electricity Came from Wind Power It looks like the wind is blowing strong these days in Texas. On Sunday Feb. 28th, it broke a wind power electricity generation record with 6,242 megawatts on
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Texas Takes Aim at EPA Regulating CO2 as Pollutant - Files Petition in Court of Appeals
Here's another group opposed to the EPA calling CO2 a danger to human health and potentially regulating it under the Clean Air Act. The US Chamber of Commerce has come out against it (big surprise), and now Reuters
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Florida Cold Snap Killing Hundreds of Manatees
Unusually harsh winter temperatures in much of the United States have had a tragic effect on one of Florida's most oddly charismatic animals, killing up to 5 percent of the
