Bills relating to county authority to regulate noise:HB736 (Quintanilla, D, A) Relating to authorizing county regulation ofnuisances and disorderly conduct. This bill would empower counties toregulate many activities and to shut them down as a … [Read more...]

Wendy Davis has filed a bill that would give unincorporated county area more control over drilling activity! The Star-Telegram didn't give the bill number and I couldn't find it on the Texas Legislature Online. … [Read more...]

A head with a heartPresident and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Paul Levy may have found an alternative to layoffs. … [Read more...]

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE52C05020090313Disaster declared after Australia oil spillQueensland state Premier Anna Bligh declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast as disaster zones after … [Read more...]

"I feel thin, like butter spread over too much bread" (Ian Holm as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)Thanks for asking … [Read more...]

Everything you need to know:Republicans say it's the most important issue in Texas. Never mind the high unemployment, record foreclosures, failing educational system, Texas at the top of polluted air and water and so forth. Republicans have to make … [Read more...]

It is Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's Weekly Round-Up.jobsanger knows that more money needs to be raised to pay for needed improvements and repairs to America's infrastructure, but he remains … [Read more...]

The explosion was heard 4 miles away!There was "quite a bit" of "product" but apparently most of it burned up because there "was not much of a spill."Oil storage tanks catch fire, cause blast … [Read more...]

Whoopie! I can't believe how you schmoozed this man who is promoting further environmental injustice with his pretend sincerity about U.S. energy policy. Don't you know that they never put gas wells in the wealthy neighborhoods? The dirty drilling … [Read more...]

T. Boone Pickens wants the Religious Right to help make him ever richer.Pickens at TCU: natural gas abundance 'divine intervention'These are the people who believe that once our water is all fracked up they can just pray and God will send them … [Read more...]

An excellent point made by my friend, Kathy Chruscielski, founder of PARCHED:Star-Telegram letterTake your own adviceWhy isn’t the gas-drilling industry leading by example and converting its own "fleet" of engines and waste-hauling trucks to natural … [Read more...]