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Bad Takes: Trump’s cuts to federal weather agencies setting us up for a perfect storm
The consequences are far more dire than leaving home without your umbrella.
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Trump’s EPA plans to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data From most polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. ‘It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,’ one said.
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‘It’s Demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don’t have access to contractually obligated money.
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Texas regulators finalize oilfield waste rule
The new rule modernizes some aspects of commercial oilfield waste disposal and recycling. But rules for burying oilfield waste on private property remain limited.
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Film Razing Liberty Square shows how climate change affected one poor neighborhood
The documentary will screen this Saturday at San Antonio’s Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, followed by a discussion.
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Messages from Jess’s last days — a social autopsy
A close reading of the last week of Jessica Witzel’s life reveals predictable failures by public agencies, facilitated by the dehumanization that housed residents often direct at their unhoused neighbors.
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Texas is unprepared for compound climate disasters
Flaws in the state’s emergency response system were laid bare by Hurricane Beryl last July. Residents of places like Houston’s Fifth Ward had to fend for themselves as they were tormented by wind, water, power outages and chemical releases.
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Her body was 126 degrees after she died; Bexar County Medical Examiner blames drugs
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?
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The Sunbelt’s growing population faces increasing climate hazards
New research identified the counties in the U.S. with large and vulnerable populations exposed to heat stress, water shortages or wildfire, with most found in the southern half of the country.
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Texan uses pollution settlement to help coastal community
Five years after Diane Wilson’s landmark settlement with Formosa Plastics, she’s directing the money toward reviving ‘the bay and the fishermen.’
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The Trump picks who could decide our climate future
It’s not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump’s choices to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.
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Disinformation threatens climate action, UN Warns
Top officials in Baku for COP29 say the spread of false climate narratives undercuts the annual climate talks.
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Bad Takes: It’s time to stop making self-serving excuses for not moving away from fossil fuels
Increasing evidence shows fracking results in the release of harmful chemicals and an uptick in earthquakes.
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Despite climate concerns, young voter turnout slumped and Its support split between the parties
The youth vote was not a monolith in Tuesday’s election, despite its broad concern for the environment and disillusionment with politics and government.
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Trump’s promise to unravel Biden’s climate policies could take years to fulfill
The president-elect has pledged to weaken air pollution regulations, reverse efforts to slow climate change and continue to boost oil and gas production.
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Assclown Alert: Ginning up hurricane conspiracies with the MAGA crowd
The far right can’t figure out whether they want to blame Helene and Milton on God’s wrath or weather machines.
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Heat-related deaths keep piling up in Texas even as candidates shy from climate
Texas A&M climate scientist suggests surging heat — and heat-related deaths — may finally deliver an ‘Oh shit’ moment for a state riding on heat-generating fossil fuels.
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Climate change increasing food insecurity in San Antonio, other places, HHS official warns
People already unable to afford nutritious food will feel the worst impact, said HHS’s assistant secretary.
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The woman who died in the Texas heat on a San Antonio sidewalk was my friend
After many months of fruitless efforts to get Jessica help, our case was finally moving. Then the heat dome hit.
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Texas likely undercounting heat-related deaths
Deaths from heat are notoriously difficult to quantify because of how complex and subjective the process is. It leaves officials with an incomplete picture of who heat kills.
