Tag: Texas
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.
Fossil freeze: Deadly Texas catastrophe shows how natural gas systems can...
Climate scientists warn that what lies ahead for all of us isn’t simply “global warming,” it’s what some call global weirding.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.