Three months ago, Melanie Oldham moved from Angleton to a tiny old home in downtown Freeport, a southeast Texas town that lies in the [...]
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Even though he was greeted like a rockstar at the University of Texas last night, and given a standing ovation this morning at SXSWEco, Bill McKibben confessed that he’d rather be in East Texas trying to stop “one of the stupidest industrial projects of all time,” the Keystone XL pipeline.
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These are not times that can be said to inspire, not least for environmentalists and clean energy enthusiasts facing a domestic oil and gas [...]
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[Ed. note: This is a lengthier version of my column that ran in the October issue of the Observer. Thanks for indulging.] In May, [...]
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Critics are calling it “frackademia”—the nexus between academia and companies with a stake in “fracking,” the controversial method of extracting gas and oil from [...]
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