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Texas House Committee Passes Compromise on Drilling Rules
Posted by Texas Tribune: Jim Malewitz on March 31st, 2015
Texas Tribune: A House committee on Monday approved legislation that would limit local control over oil and gas activities -- a committee substitute for a bill that initially stirred anger in city halls across Texas.
In a 10-1 vote, the House Committee on Energy Resources approved an updated version of House Bill 40, among the most prominent of nearly a dozen bills filed in the aftermath of Denton's vote in November to ban hydraulic fracturing within the North Texas city's limits.
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Yale survey: Most Texans believe in global warming
Posted by Texas Tribune: Jim Malewitz on September 25th, 2013
Texas Tribune: Most Texans believe in global warming, but many are skeptical that the phenomenon, if happening, is mostly caused by human activity, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication that comes after another sweltering, dry summer. Some 70 percent of Texans believe that global warming is happening, according to the survey data. Fourteen percent believe the earth is not warming. Fewer than half of the 800 Texans surveyed — 44 percent— identified humans as...