Texas is a sparkly mythical wonderland full of unicorns. And by unicorns, I mean green jobs. And by green jobs, I mean well-paying, long-term jobs ranging from maintenance to operations, project management, and high-tech engineering. Wortham: Unicorns are alive, well and working the wind out west Greg Wortham, Special Contributor Monday, October 05, 2009 Texas [...]
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Texas: Sparkly Mythical Wonderland of Green Jobs
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin American-Statesman, green jobs, susan combs, sweetwater, unicorns, wind turbines on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Psst! Hey, you wanna buy a carbon offset?” Organized crime to “go green” by trafficking bogus offsets
Posted in Global Warming on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For any of you worries about the 1 Billion tons of carbon offsets in the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, or the 2 billion tons in the just-released Kerry-Boxer draft, here’s another reason to be worried. Some have decried offsets as being similar to a medieval indulgence, where the bearer pays to be able to have [...]
Public Citizen Urges Texas Court to Force State Air Agency to Regulate Global Warming Emissions
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged air contaminant, Austin, blackburn and carter, clean air act, climate change, Coal, coal plant, dangerous pollutant, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Global Warming, hunton coal plant, Massachusetts v EPA, new source review, no regrets, nucoastal, public citizen texas, TCEQ, texas coal tour, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith, travis county district cout, us supreme court on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
AUSTIN – Saying that climate change must be considered when new coal plants and other facilities are approved, Public Citizen today sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in the Travis County District Court to require the commission to regulate global warming gases. This case seeks to extend to Texas law the precedent set [...]
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