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| AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation will be releasing a report with a one-sided, non-comprehensive, and biased look at what climate change legislation would mean to Texas. In today’s Houston Chronicle, energy writer Tom Fowler writes, “Proposed U.S. climate change laws could cut Texas' manufacturing output by more than 5 percent and increase electric prices by as much as 52 percent by 2030, according to a study to be unveiled today by a conservative Texas think tank.” This report, however, fails to take into account the net benefits that increases in renewable energy and efficiency would provide to the Texas economy. | |
| Today, Governor Perry announced that the state of Texas will take legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. Environment Texas’ Luke Metzger issued the following statement. | |
| Texas ranks 1st nationwide for most pollution from power plants based on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution for 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Texas. That year, Texas’ power plants emitted a total of nearly 260 million pounds of carbon dioxide, the same amount of global warming pollution in a year as more than 45 million of today’s cars. | |
| AUSTIN— Texas' global warming pollution declined by 2 percent since 2004, the year in which pollution levels began to peak in many states, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Texas. Texas still ranks 1st nationwide for the highest levels of global warming pollution. | |
| AUSTIN – Environment Texas today released “The Clean Energy Future Starts Here: Understanding the American Clean Energy and Security Act,” an analysis that puts the energy bill passed by the U.S. House in June in the perspective of its role in moving America toward clean energy, green jobs, and reduced global warming emissions. The analysis comes as Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer and Foreign Relations Committee Chair John Kerry plan to release their energy bill on Wednesday, which will be the starting point for the Senate debate and is expected to follow the framework of the House bill. | |
| In 2008, people in Texas saved more than 115 million gallons of gasoline by riding transit in record numbers – the amount consumed by 200,600 cars in Texas. Transportation is responsible for more than two-thirds of our dependence on oil and about one-third of our carbon dioxide pollution, according to a new Environment Texas report. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today proposed the first-ever uniform standards to improve fuel economy and reduce global warming pollution from new passenger vehicles. The standards largely mirror those already adopted by California and 13 other states. | |
| “While the dramatic shift we need in our energy policy and the dire scientific predictions regarding global warming demand that we do much more, the first step is always the hardest and Congress should be applauded for taking it. We learn to walk before we can run; this historic act by Congress gets us up on our feet and heading toward a clean energy economy. | |
| AUSTIN - Today, 13 government science agencies issued the most definitive scientific assessment to date of the impacts of global warming on the United States and reinforced the urgency of acting now to reduce pollution. The story the report tells for Texas is one of more drought, more extreme storms, and a coast inundated by rising sea levels if global warming pollution levels are not dramatically and rapidly cut. According to Environment Texas, the report also tells another story – one of the opportunity to avert disaster by converting to a clean energy economy. | |
| Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants, which come mostly from burning fossil fuels, are a threat to public health and welfare. | |
| San Antonio, Texas — Global warming could cost corn growers in Texas $37 million a year, according to a new report by Environment Texas. Texas ranks 11th for highest damage estimates. Nationwide the damages to America’s #1 crop total more than $1.4 billion annually. Environment Texas expects these costs to go up unless Congress and the President take decisive action to repower America with clean energy and reduce global warming pollution. | |
| DALLAS -??As the presidential candidates prepare to discuss some of the most important issues facing our country at their final debate tonight, Environment Texas released a new report documenting that the average temperature in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2007 was 2.2°F above the historical average. The year 2007 tied for the second warmest year on record globally and was the 10th warmest year on record in the United States. These record temperatures are part of a trend toward rising temperatures resulting from global warming. | |
| AUSTIN—As the presidential candidates prepare to discuss some of the most important issues facing our country at their final debate tonight, Environment Texas released a new report documenting that the average temperature in the Houston area in 2007 was 1.5°F above the historical average. The year 2007 tied for the second warmest year on record globally and was the 10th warmest year on record in the United States. These record temperatures are part of a trend toward rising temperatures resulting from global warming. | |
| AUSTIN —Environment Texas today hailed a letter sent by Representatives Lloyd Doggett, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green, Eddie Bernice Johnson and 148 members of Congress to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laying out a blueprint for U.S. action to solve global warming. The letter establishes principles for “strong, fair, and science-based†legislation. | |
| AUSTIN — Environment Texas joined with Environment America to release a new report, Global Warming Solutions that Work, which details more than 20 examples of cutting-edge policies and practices that communities are using to reduce global warming pollution, from solar power in Israel to rooftop gardens in the South Bronx. The report also profiles positive actions taken by the cities of Dallas and Austin and the state of Texas, which has become a leader in wind power. | |
| Standing in front of a 20-foot, inflated model of the earth in Bryan today, Environment Texas called on Representative Chet Edwards to support bold and decisive action on global warming. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice†when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment Texas report makes it clear that Texas is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall are now 28 percent more frequent in Texas than they were 60 years ago. | |
| AUSTIN – Environment Texas congratulated former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today on receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their tireless efforts to inform the public about the dangers of global warming and urge action to slow its progress. | |
| Houston – The death toll from extreme heat in Houston each summer will increase from about 24 to nearly 32, resulting in 192 additional heat-related deaths by mid-century as global warming drives up summertime temperatures, according to a new report released by Environment Texas and conducted by Applied Climatologists, Inc. experts Dr. Laurence Kalkstein of the University of Miami and Dr. Scott Greene of the University of Oklahoma. | |
| San Antonio, Texas—San Antonio ranked 4th in the nation for cities with excessive heat days last summer, according to a new report released today by Environment Texas. Environment Texas said the warmer-than-normal weather last summer and flooding this summer is indicative of what Texas can expect with continued global warming. | |
| AUSTIN—Global warming pollution in Texas increased by 18% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment Texas. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. The report finds that Texas ranks first in the nation for total emissions, first for emissions from coal plants, first for emissions from natural gas plants, and first for the largest increase in emissions from motor gasoline consumption. | |
| AUSTIN—The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| This year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Texas, according to a new report released today by Environment Texas. | |
| Global warming pollution in Texas jumped 178% between 1960 and 2001, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Texas. | |