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Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Bill, call, clean water protection act, climate change, Coal, coal mining, Congress, Global Warming, h.r. 1310, house of representatives, i love mountains, Mining, mountain top, mountaintop, mtr, protest, removal, representative on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Please join us in supporting ILoveMountains.org in their ongoing campaign to bring a halt to Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. There is a bill in front of the House of Representatives that would do a great deal to help stop this incredibly destructive operation. As you probably know, MTR is one of the most ecologically [...]

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Gas Drilling 101: North Texas Communities Alliance March Meeting

Posted in Energy, tagged fort worth, gas drilling, health, march meeting, nctca, north texas communities alliance, property rights, safety on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE March Meeting: Gas Drilling 101 General Meeting Information: When: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:30 pm – Doors Open – Coffee & Networking 7:00 – 8:45 pm: NCTCA Meeting Where: Hotel Trinity – Inn Suites I-30 @ Beach Street (east of downtown Ft. Worth) You asked for it, we listened! We’ll [...]

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Texas Oil And Gas Accountability Project: A New Watchdog for Texas’ Shale Gas Drilling Industry

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barnett shale, bluedaze, drilling reform, earthworks, hydraulic fracturing, sharon wilson, Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) on March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This month Earthworks officially launched the Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP), a new citizens’ group that will work to ensure that Texas’ burgeoning Barnett shale gas industry operates while respecting the environment and the rights of its neighbors. There have been, to say the (very) least, a myriad of concerns popping up in [...]

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On global warming, the science is solid

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, climate research, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, greg abbott, heat-trapping gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, melting ice sheets, methane, nasa, National Academy of Sciences, national oceanic and atomspheric administration, natural gas, nitrous oxide, noaa, oil, professors, rising sea levels, science, scientists, Texas, university of east anglia, waste disposal on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers. Check it out! On global warming, the science is solid In recent months, e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in [...]

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