Tag: Texas
‘Worse than Texas’: Extreme anti-choice bills advance in multiple states
Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access.
New reports allege Texas oil and gas regulator’s lax enforcement
When a Canadian company started drilling for oil and gas near Jim and Sue Franklin’s ranch in a small Permian Basin town...
Texas oil regulators profit from the companies they oversee
Texas has long hosted a large and powerful oil and gas industry.
Texas abortion law reflects GOP turn towards citizen enforcement
Is this the highest-profile example of a growing push by Republicans to give supporters broad power to sue over issues important to their base?
A chill wind: Texas unleashes bounty hunters on women
Texas' latest abortion ban deputizes ordinary citizens to hunt down and sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion after 6 weeks (e.g. clinic staff, taxi drivers, someone who provided money for the procedure).
Abortion bounty hunters in Texas are not ‘whistleblowers’ — they’re cruel...
Aided by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of Texas has now codified misogyny.
Texas company exposed by DeSmog for radioactive fracking waste practices threatens...
Both during and after DeSmog’s investigation, Lotus LLC has tried various approaches to keep information about the company under wraps.
‘We’re staying out’: Texas state democrats who fled to D.C. tell...
“We’re not going to be bullied and intimidated by anybody, including the governor or our colleagues. We have a job to be the voice of our constituents.”
Keep thinking outside the box
Climate change is caused by too much reliance on fossil fuels – and yet the United States continues to rely upon them.
Where does the buck stop in Texas?
Texas Republicans took money from the utilities they failed to regulate. Now they’re pointing the finger elsewhere for power failures.