Two generations of energy workers—from Big Oil to environmental safety—discuss how their family has responded to the climate emergency.
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‘Gracias a Petroleo’: Fossil Fuel Ad Campaign Claims the Taco Truck
Look Beyond’s “San Antonio Entrepreneur Series” highlights businesses willing to give the petroleum industry an unqualified endorsement.
Corpus Christi is Awash in Climate Change
Corpus Christi, TX, is no stranger to the sea, and increasingly the sea is no stranger to Corpus Christi.
San Antonio Snoozing on ‘Lights Out’ Bird Campaign
Bird populations are crashing. City lights are a major culprit. But ‘Bird City Certified’ San Antonio isn’t dimming its downtown—it’s turning on the River Walk’s holiday lights two weeks early.
COP26: New Promises, Major Coal Divestment Pledge, Could Shift Climate Course
Three days of triumphant funding and program announcements collided with deepening alarm and mistrust from veteran climate policy analysts on Thursday, as a media panel organized by Climate Action Network-International picked apart the optimistic narrative that emerged in the opening segments of this year’s United Nations climate change conference, COP 26, in Glasgow.
In New England, Protesters are Turning Coal Roads into Garden Beds
Doing ‘what needs to be done’ to close Merrimack Station, the No Coal No Gas campaign is employing direct action (and facing mass arrests) blockading trains and tearing up roadway. Arnie Alpert | Waging Nonviolence There’s one form of power that’s generated when hot water turns turbines to create electricity. […]
Controversial Dredging is a Go at Matagorda Bay, But Max Midstream May Not Be
appears to be sailing in hot water. The young oil pipeline and shipping company — founded by Houston real estate developer Todd Edwards and British financier Azad Cola — shipped its first oil in May, shipped its last in June and has since been hit with a brace of expensive lawsuits alleging crimes from fraud to forgery, as well as a lien against its properties for $1.4 million in unpaid bills.
Fights Over Wastewater and Rivers Redirecting Waste to Texas Ranchlands
Experts say that the practice of discharging even treated wastewater is outdated and harmful. It can be especially disastrous in the environmentally sensitive Hill Country, where development is ratcheting up faster than almost anywhere else in the nation.