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Wind Energy in Texas Saves Enough Water to Meet Needs of 130,800 Texans

AUSTIN – With seventy five percent of Texas still in drought, Environment Texas released a new Environment Texas Research and Policy Center report today that shows that Texas’ current power generation from wind energy saves enough water to meet the needs of 130,800 Texans, about the population of Waco or Killeen. And as Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath prompts more Texans to call for action to tackle global warming and the rise in extreme weather, the report finds that Texas wind energy displaces as much global warming pollution as taking 3,334,000 cars off the road per year.

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The Cost of Fracking: Environment Texas Documents the Dollars Drained by Dirty Drilling

DALLAS - Firing a new salvo in the ongoing debate over the gas drilling practice known as fracking, Environment Texas today released a report documenting a wide range of dollars and cents costs imposed by dirty drilling.  As documented in The Costs of Fracking, fracking creates millions of dollars of costs related to everything from water infrastructure to ruined roads to devalued property.   The report release comes amidst deliberations by the Dallas City Council over proposed changes to the city ordinance governing drilling.

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Wind Power Advocates call on Congress to Renew Tax Credits

AUSTIN – With a key wind energy tax credit set to expire at the end of the year, wind energy advocates will today deliver thousands of letters to Senator John Cornyn urging him to support extension of the credit in order to protect Texas jobs and the environment. An estimated 37,000 Americans employed by the wind industry could lose their jobs if Congress fails to act.

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Obama Admin. Finalizes Historic Clean Car Standards

AUSTIN - Today the Obama administration finalized new clean car standards that will double the fuel efficiency of today’s vehicles by 2025, drastically reducing emissions of carbon pollution and cutting oil use in Texas and nationwide. The standards will cover new cars and light trucks in model years 2017-2025, and require those vehicles to meet the equivalent of a 54.5 miles-per-gallon standard by 2025. A recent joint analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists projects that by 2030 in Texas alone, the standards will annually cut carbon pollution from vehicles by 28.2 million metric tons—the equivalent of the annual pollution of 4.2 million of today’s vehicles—and save 2.4 billion gallons of fuel.

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New Report: Extreme Downpours Up 29 Percent in Texas

AUSTIN— Just weeks after historic rainfall levels led to devastating flooding in Houston, a new Environment Texas report confirms that extreme rainstorms are happening 29 percent more frequently in Texas since 1948. “As the old saying goes, when it rains, it pours—especially in recent years as bigger storms have hit Texas more often,” said Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas. “We need to heed scientists’ warnings that this dangerous trend is linked to global warming, and do everything we can to cut carbon pollution today.”

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