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They Weren't Kidding About the 'Future' Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
They Weren't Kidding About the "Future" Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of The U.S. government is moving ahead with FutureGen, a $1 billion demonstration clean coal plant -- and by "moving ahead," we mean they've decided that it will be built on one of four sites in either Texas or Illinois. The final siting decision will be made in September 2007; constructi ...
Topics: coal, energy, Illinois, news, renewable energy, Texas (all these topics)

The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast		12 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast Yesterday, officials approved a plan to build the biggest offshore wind farm in the U.S. off the coast of Padre Island, Texas. Say it with us now: everything's bigger in Texas. Superior Renewable Energy LLC plans to erect as many as 170 turbines, with the capacity to power about 125,000 homes. Some conservation groups are up in arms, as ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Wind farm follies	David Roberts	11 May 2006	Gristmill
So, it seems they're going to build the nation's largest wind farm off the coast of Padre Island in Texas. Environmentalists are up in arms about ... wait for it ... the birds. Oy. This bit from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is amusing: "Those who are concerned about view sheds shouldn't have a problem," he said. "There's nobody there to look at it." Nice bank shot! Speaking of view sheds and wind farms, I confess I haven't been ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, Ted Stevens, Texas, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Oops Oil leaks all over everything		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Oops Oil leaks all over everything Oil, oil everywhere! And not in a good way. In its dubiously named Sustainability Report, oil behemoth Royal Dutch Shell reports that oil spills at its facilities rose 50 percent from 2004 to 2005. Hurricane damage was responsible for a goodly portion of the spillage, and sabotage of a major pipeline in Nigeria didn't help either. The amou ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil, Texas (all these topics)

Ward Up Houston kids living near a Superfund site tell their stories in pictures		16 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to view a slide show of children's photos and collages. Collage: Wassim Elmetni (age 11). "Many Diversified Interests" sounds like a line from a college application, or advice from a responsible money manager. In fact, though, it's the name of a Superfund site in the Fifth Ward, one of the oldest and most disenfranchised neighborhoods of Houston, Texas. For the most part, children g ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

How do you define "environmentalism"?	Chris Schults	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Dave's environmental ethics post addressed an issue that has become more and more apparent here in Gristmill: the term 'environmentalism' means something different to each one of us. This is exemplified in today's Soapbox by Oliver Bernstein on environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border: Laguna La Escondida in Reynosa, Mexico, a water source for the surrounding community whose name means Hidden Lagoon, is also an important migratory bird stopover point. Re ...
Topics: Mexico, Texas, waste, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

At Least the City's Back Up and ... Oh Gulf Coast ecosystems slow to bounce back after hurricanes		30 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
At Least the City's Back Up and ... Oh Gulf Coast ecosystems slow to bounce back after hurricanes Gulf Coast ecosystems are struggling to rebound from last year's record hurricane season. Hurricanes Rita and Katrina destroyed over 100 square miles of wetlands in Louisiana alone. They spread salt water inland and killed many plants, including marsh grasses along the Louisiana coast, popular chow for wild d ...
Topics: land degradation, Louisiana, news, oceans, Texas (all these topics)

Chelsea Glintin' Green amenities catching on in new housing complexes		22 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Chelsea Glintin' Green amenities catching on in new housing complexes In Chelsea, Mass., new condos in the Forbes Park development come with access to a fleet of DaimlerChrysler Smart cars -- two-seater mini-mobiles that get great mileage. Every unit at Buzz, a Dallas loft project, will include an eGo electric moped. They're more useful than the traditional new-home amenities, believes developer Zad Roumaya: " ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, news, Texas (all these topics)

The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast Texas has proposed what could become the nation's first offshore wind farm, about seven miles off the coast of Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico. The massive project would involve construction of around 50 wind turbines over some five years and would be expected to generate 150 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 40,000 hom ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least		08 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle took the top four spots in a new ranking of 25 U.S. cities based on sustainability practices. Bay Area green group SustainLane created the list after scrutinizing the metropolises based on 12 criteria, ...
Topics: California, news, Oregon, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans		05 May 2005	Daily Grist
Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published parts two and three of its special series on habitat conservation plans (HCPs) and, suffice to say, the story didn't get any cheerier after part one. A proposed 9.1 million-acre HCP in Washington -- which would cover the bulk of the state's private forestland -- promise ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, news, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

Ban of the Cave Bug High court to decide whether to hear challenge to Endangered Species Act		28 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Ban of the Cave Bug High court to decide whether to hear challenge to Endangered Species Act The fate of the Endangered Species Act may rest in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, if they decide in coming weeks to hear a case from a Texas man hoping to remove development restrictions on his land. Revoking the ESA protection of the tiny cave bugs inhabiting Fred Purcell's property would, of course, also affect protection f ...
Topics: news, politics, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

The Curious Incident of the Mercury in the School Yard Study suggests mercury and autism linked		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Curious Incident of the Mercury in the School Yard Study suggests mercury and autism linked Higher levels of mercury in the environment may be linked to higher rates of autism, a study of Texas school districts found. Districts with the highest rates of autism and special-education students also had the most mercury in the air and water, researchers discovered. They caution that the study doesn't prove a causal link, but s ...
Topics: health, news, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Looking for Some Good Cowboys Blair bypasses Bush, appeals to Texas for global-warming aid		04 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Looking for Some Good Cowboys Blair bypasses Bush, appeals to Texas for global-warming aid British Prime Minister Tony Blair's quixotic mission to convert the Bush administration from staunch believers in "more research" on global warming to actual movers on the issue has thus far proved unsuccessful. So Blair is diversifying his strategy. One tactic is to bypass the decision maker in chief and ...
Topics: business, climate, news, Texas, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Don't Mess With Texas -- Unless You're Buying the Hot Dogs Texas chemical plants cause problems for nearby residents		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Mess With Texas -- Unless You're Buying the Hot Dogs Texas chemical plants cause problems for nearby residents The Houston Chronicle is running an investigative series on chemical plants and their effects on nearby residents, and it ain't pretty. There's a fair bit of evidence suggesting that companies dramatically underreport their annual emissions. On top of that, accidental leaks -- or what the industry calls "fugit ...
Topics: business, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Forgive Me, Padre, For I Have Drilled Drilling on a Texas barrier island could mess with sea turtles and other critters	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Mar 2004	Main Dish
Life's a beach -- and then you die. Photo: NPS. This time of year, a slim strip of Texas beach known as South Padre Island is hopping with bikini-wearing, hard-drinking college students on spring break. On neighboring North Padre Island, however, the scene tends to be quite a bit calmer. Nearly 70 miles of this Gulf Coast barrier island are natio ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, oil, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination Meanwhile, far from the madding crowds in Iowa, Green Party activists are fishing about for a standard-bearer of their own. Ralph Nader said no thanks; he's planning to lose the 2004 presidential race as an Independent. But a potential front-runner has emerged in the person of David Cobb, a lon ...
Topics: California, elections, Florida, political groups, politics, Texas, Wisconsin (all these topics)

All Our Excess Lives in Texas West Texas Up in Arms Over Bid to Sell State-Owned Water		11 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
All Our Excess Lives in Texas West Texas Up in Arms Over Bid to Sell State-Owned Water Water may be scarce in West Texas, but emotions are flowing freely over an insider deal that would allow politically powerful oil tycoons from Midland to sell billions of gallons of water from state-owned reserves. The deal was cut in secret between Rio Nuevo Ltd. -- made up of eight oil entrepreneurs -- and the Texas General Land Office, which con ...
Topics: Texas, water conflicts (all these topics)

Board of Miseducation Environmental Textbook Author Sues Texas Over Alleged Censorship		05 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Board of Miseducation Environmental Textbook Author Sues Texas Over Alleged Censorship When it comes to textbook publishing, Texas calls the shots across the nation, by virtue of being big enough to need a whole heck of a lot of books. In the past, the Lone Star State has grabbed headlines for refusing to use science texts that teach evolutionary theory and not creationism; now, a major case is brewing over the t ...
Topics: politics, religion and spirituality, Texas (all these topics)

A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State Texas is probably not the first place that comes to mind when the topic turns to clean energy -- but the land of fossil fuels is looking to become a leader in renewable power by investing heavily in wind energy. The state is already the second-largest wind-energy producer in the country, trailing only California. In the last three years, Texas h ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Austin Powers		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

The Yellow Haze of Texas		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Yellow Haze of Texas Meanwhile, the state of Texas is plagued by its own air-quality issues -- and the state House and Senate are at loggerheads over what to do about it. On Monday, the Senate passed a bill to fund the Texas Emissions Reductions Program, the key component of a federally mandated state anti-smog plan. The bill would raise some $150 million per year for pollution control by raising fees on vehicle title transfers, wh ...
Topics: air pollution, Texas (all these topics)

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