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Texas legislature bans transge...

Sep 6, 2025 by GlobalPossibilities

After a decade and more than 16 tries, state lawmakers will send to the governor’s desk an anti-trans bill, which restricts access to public facilities and places a $25,000 fine on the first violation.

Why Calling the Texas Flooding...

Jul 13, 2025 by GlobalPossibilities

Thirty years after a heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago, a sociologist explains how governments deflected blame after disasters then and now.

Solar Saves Austin Central Lib...

Oct 15, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

Solar Saves Austin Central Library $100,000 A Year

One Texas-sized loophole is le...

Oct 15, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

One Texas-sized loophole is letting Lone Star polluters off the hook

It’s time for states that grew...

Sep 23, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

It’s time for states that grew rich from oil, gas and coal to figure out what’s next

Super-Polluting Methane Emissi...

Apr 23, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds

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Mar 9, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

This 50-year-old policy is communities’ first line of defense against dirty development projects. Trump is about to roll it back.

Greenpeace Activists Avoid Fel...

Mar 6, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

Greenpeace Activists Avoid Felony Charges Following a Protest Near Houston’s Oil Port

The Promised Land

Nov 1, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Big coal gave a tiny Texas town free land. There’s a major catch.

Climate Change Is Teaching Us ...

Aug 26, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

In most respects, climate change is a horror show. As the temperature rises, the conditions in which most of human civilization grew in fade away. The shorelines humans have almost always known are changing. Places we prefer to be wet are drying out, and some places we know to be dry are greening up a bit. Storms are getting more severe in some places, and they’re going away in others.

Austin is proving that cities ...

May 29, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

This month, the capital of Texas voted to support the Green New Deal.

Texans could get a year in pri...

May 22, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The fight against a Texas pipeline just got a little more challenging. On Monday, the Texas Senate passed legislation that makes interfering with pipelines and other oil and gas infrastructure a crime punishable by up to a year in prison and $10,000 in fines.

SWEPCO Seeking Proposals For 1...

Jan 11, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The Southwestern Electric Power Company announced on Monday that it was seeking proposals for up to 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy to be brought into commercial operation by the end of 2021.

Fracked shale oil wells drying...

Jan 11, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

“Other countries, namely China, are frantically investing in renewables. For us to crow about our oil wealth, and not focus on renewables, is for us to miss the opportunity to be leaders in the world as it’s going to be.”

‘Future-proofing’ is how you s...

Dec 14, 2018 by GlobalPossibilities

There’s a new term for all the work needed to prepare coasts and cities for the consequences of climate change, and it’s blissfully free of the words “climate change.”