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Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather

Grist

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. In May 2014, the PUC sought changes that would require energy companies to identify and address all potential failure points, including any effects of “weather design limits.”. Luminant argued against the proposal.

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Pennsylvania County Bans Fracking in Area Parks

DeSmogBlog

Natural gas rights leasing should be conducted on a case-by-case basis by the leaders elected to make those decisions,” said Fitzgerald, a longtime ally of the natural gas industry, who also stated that he had “no intention of allowing any drilling related activity on or under any of our parks.”. Taken March 2021.

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Activists Decry FERC Rush to Construct LNG Gas Terminal, Say Permits for More Potential ‘Train Wreck’

DeSmogBlog

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. Hyne asserts that replacing coal with natural gas is good for the climate.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

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New Bigger Risks Await Poorly Regulated Rail Industry

DeSmogBlog

Meanwhile, the public is facing new rail risks that are receiving scant attention — and once again federal regulators are allowing industry to move forward without proper consideration of the health and safety risks. But Earthjustice and other organizations sued the administration over this move, citing the perils. “It

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Reservation Dogs

Grist

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. Snatches of information about the chemicals companies used for fracking in the Bakken shale formation, which runs beneath part of the reservation and contains billions of barrels of oil and natural gas.

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