Category: Texas
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Mars Makes Largest Renewable Energy Commitment of Any U.S. Food Manufacturer
The maker of Doublemint, Twix and more announced plans to build a 200 MW wind farm…
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Rice University Researchers Create Tiny Film That Could Replace Lithium Batteries
It’s only one one-hundredth of an inch thick…
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Texas Family Awarded $3 Million in Nation’s First Fracking Trial
It took three years, but a Texas family finally emerged victorious in a case that could long impact fracking companies and the impact they have on the communities in which they operate. A Dallas jury favored the Parr family, which sued Aruba Petroleum back in 2011 after experiencing an array of health issues attorneys argued were…
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Watch Full First Episode of ‘Years of Living Dangerously,’ Showtime’s Landmark Series on Climate Change
Years of Living Dangerously, the first-ever series solely about climate change premieres at 10 p.m. Sunday on Showtime, but you don’t have to wait that long to watch the first full episode. Luckily, producers have created a YouTube channel and uploaded the entire 60-minute debut—not something I’d count on happening every week. [embed]http://youtu.be/brvhCnYvxQQ[/embed] In this first…
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Texas Oil Spill Expected to ‘Get Much Worse’ for Wildlife
The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as…