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The climate in Texas is changing partially due to global warming and rising trends in greenhouse gas emissions. [1] As of 2016, most area of Texas had already warmed by 1.5 °F (0.83 °C) since the previous century because of greenhouse gas emissions by the United States and other countries. [1]
The Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP) was a project developed by Summit Power Group, Inc intended to build of the world’s first [1] Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) clean-coal power plant, a type of carbon capture and storage facility, located near Odessa, Texas (coordinates 31° 44' 46" N, 102° 35' 42" W).
An editorial in The Washington Post on April 6, 2024 discusses the challenges faced by clean energy projects as caused by environmental activists in lawsuits around the United States. One example is the Cardinal-Hickory Creek high-voltage transmission line between Iowa and Wisconsin.
A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.
The case was filed in March 2020 by sixteen youth residents of Montana, then aged 2 through 18, [263] who argued that the state's support of the fossil fuel industry had worsened the effects of climate change on their lives, thus denying their right to a "clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations" [264]:Art.
Texas is among the states challenging those rules, but if they stand, meeting them will cost coal as a sector $1 billion per year, according to an analysis by law firm Sidley Austin LLP ...
The US Energy Department has issued an emergency order aimed at keeping the lights on in Texas as the state’s power grid grapples with surging demand amid record-high temperatures.
Sunset legislation passed by the Texas Legislature in 2001 changed the agency's name to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and continued the agency until 2013. During the special session of the 81st Legislature (2009), legislation was adopted amending the 2013 date to 2011, [ 4 ] when the agency was continued for an additional 12 ...