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Texas AG to testify in DC about Texas’ lawsuits against the EPA

Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, greg abbott, public citizn texas, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Texas’ Attorney General, Greg Abbott is taking his fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Washington DC today. Abbot will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how he believes the EPA’s policies are affecting Texas. Abbott, TCEQ and the governor have been on the warpath against the EPA for some time. Abbott, [...]

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Texas sends Hot-headed letter to EPA on CO2: partisan political ploy at its worst

Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged bryan shaw, carbon regulation, clean air act, deregulation, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, greenhouse gas emissions, greg abbott, Lisa Jackson, Massachusetts v EPA, public citizen texas, Rick Perry, tailoring rule, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Attorney General on August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

On Monday Aug 2, the Texas Attorney General and TCEQ Commissioner sent a strongly-worded (read: childish and churlish) letter to the EPA saying in no way would Texas comply with regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. But their ploy reeks more of politics than sound public policy.

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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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Gov. Perry at it again with EPA lawsuit

Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate, climate change, endangerment finding, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, forrest wilder, Global Warming, governor perry, greg abbott, lawsuit, texas observer, Todd Staples on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »

If I had a nickel every time we put out a statement saying something along the lines of “Governor Perry is blowing hot air about climate change”…I could probably only really buy a candy bar. Or a coke — a Mexican coke in a bottle, preferably, to be drunk as I eat a fried avocado [...]

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Texas State Climatologist Disagrees with Gov Perry, AG Abbott, and Ag Comm Staples on climate science

Posted in Global Warming, tagged andy dessler, brad johnson, Carbon Dioxide, cia, climate change, co2, endangerment finding, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, George W. Bush, Global Warming, governor perry, greg abbott, ipcc, john nielsen-gammon, National Academy of Sciences, state climatologist, texas a&m, Todd Staples, USDA, wonk room on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

You may have seen the political bloviating earlier this week when Governor Perry announced he would sue the EPA over their endangerment finding on CO2. Or that Attorney General Greg Abbott signed on, as did Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples, who all ended up calling the science behind climate change flawed, saying: The state’s legal action [...]

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