Category: Texas
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A Preventable Chemical Plant Explosion May Be Closer Than You Think
The EPA has a clear mandate to do what a wide coalition of organizations have been urging it to do for years: use its existing authority under the law to require chemical plants …
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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Big Oil’s Political Influence Fuels Industrial ‘Accidents’
Countless other explosions, oil leaks, gas leaks, and other industrial “accidents” occurred all over the country in between these three major events, and every one of them has something in common: they were all allowed to happen thanks to a lack of …
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Another Texas Town Bans Plastic Bags
But it’s important to remember that everywhere on land is part of a watershed that flows to a river, creek or stream that then outlets in a lake, bay or ocean. So it’s great to see inland cities …
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Another Texas Town Bans Plastic Bags
But it’s important to remember that everywhere on land is part of a watershed that flows to a river, creek or stream that then outlets in a lake, bay or ocean. So it’s great to see inland cities …