Resistance to Keystone XL pipeline flares in Spaulding OK
From Green Right Now Reports Two Texas residents, acting as part of the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, locked themselves to machinery today to protest construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in...
View ArticleKeystone XL crews plows up Julia Trigg Crawford’s farm, as pipeline nears...
Green Right Now Reports For those of you who’ve been following the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Houston-area refineries, you know that the Oklahoma/Texas...
View ArticleHOAs must consider drought-tolerant landscaping under new law passed by Texas...
A bill designed to support homeowners who want to install drought-tolerant landscaping passed the Texas legislature in late May and is awaiting a signature from the governor. Senate Bill 198, sponsored...
View ArticleKeystone XL pump station construction halted by Great Plains protesters
Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance members locked to an earth mover. Nine protesters from the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested this morning, after at least eight members of the group...
View ArticleTexas A&M to build a ginormous solar testing facility
From Green Right Now Reports Being sunny, windy and large, Texas has abundant potential for renewable energy. It leads the U.S. in wind power generation with 12,200 megawatts, but has long been...
View ArticleGasland II: America’s fracking nightmare and somnambulent energy policy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One of the talking points that has convinced Americans to look politely away from the muck and dirty water while the oil and gas industry fracks tens of thousands of...
View ArticleKermit goes green
Green Right Now Reports Here’s a warm about fuzzy story about Kermit, a small town in West Texas. It has just banned plastic bags. Kermit, population 5,700, is one-time oil town that sits near the...
View ArticleWater shortages pit ranchers against frackers in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports Texas Long Horn (Photo: Wikimedia) A visit to West Texas will invariably take you by two common sites, oil and natural gas wells and pastures where Texas’ iconic longhorn...
View Article‘Fracked’ residents call on Congress and the EPA to investigate water...
Green Right Now Reports Texas, Pennsylvania and Wyoming homeowners whose water has been contaminated by gas fracking operations called on Congress today to hold hearings about what they see as the...
View ArticleTexas lags behind California — and other states — in solar jobs
The Solar Foundation’s Solar Jobs report shows that California, the number one state for solar jobs, enjoyed 8 percent growth in that sector in 2013, and now employs nearly 50,000 people in the solar...
View ArticleTexas sets new wind power peak, getting 40 percent of its power from wind on...
GRN Reports Wind power in Texas hit its highest point ever, contributing 10,296 megawatts to the grid at about 9 p.m. this past Wednesday night, which meant wind was providing nearly 40 percent of the...
View ArticleWhere’s the local, greener beef? It’s about to get taxed in Texas
GRN Reports: We’ve seen lots of shenanigans this spring as big established interests nibble away at the small producers threatening the status quo. Oklahoma, for instance, just placed a tax on...
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