Or: Why the climate movement needs a crash course in philosophy
Greg Harman
The environmental community has long illustrated the seriousness of climate change with intimidating facts and figures. The
Driverless cars? Half of all Americans would climb aboard. Brain implants? Nearly 30% are open-minded. In-vitro meat grown in a laboratory? Hold the burger.
Only two out of 10 Americans
Ugly, dirty history of spills at San Antonio Refinery seem far from over.
Greg Harman
Consider this my spring cleaning, late as it is. The subject: the mangle of flares
Even as climate change science has tightened to a certainty, we’re witnessing the return of denialist ‘zombie arguments.’
Just over a decade ago, US Senator James Inhofe helped derail
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Work boots towered above Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as he moved down rows of shelving at Justin Boots’ distribution center in Fort Worth.
The campaign ad
We idle at a crossroads. It’s a harried intersection, to be sure, at a twilight hour.From one direction flow the rail cars of explosive oil, streams of latticed
An eight-month investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and The Weather Channel reveals Texas has done next to nothing to protect people in the Eagle Ford’s
Earthquakes have been linked to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for years now. To put it simply, the injection of millions upon millions of gallons of waste fluids from fracking operations
After wresting a semblance of its formerly wild self from the shop-lined canals and flood-control channels of the Alamo City, the San Antonio River winds its way through 60 miles
Texas approved funding for a $50bn water plan, but left out a tool that has been growing in popularity among corporations
(First published by Guardian Sustainable Business.)
Texas voters last
For a plan that purports to thoughtfully guide Texas through a more crowded and thirsty future, the 2012 State Water Plan reads unsettlingly like a playbook from the last century:
Though being aggressively sold as the best way to secure adequate water supplies for Texas’ future, Prop 6, to be voted on in Texas on November 5, would fund a
