Tag: climate change
MJ Hegar on COVID relief, expanding Supreme Court, and building the Ike Dike
On Tuesday, the Signal interviewed Democrat U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar. Hegar, a former Air Force helicopter pilot, is running against three-term ...Op-Ed: The West Coast is burning, but Texas doesn’t have to
What’s happening on the West Coast is terrifying: charred towns and neighborhoods, grieving families, hundreds of square miles of pristine habitat and ...Texas water supply at risk because of climate change, Texas A&M study finds
As climate change brings about hotter temperatures in Texas, water supply could be threatened as early as 2050, according to a team ...Al Gore visits Texas to register new voters and rally them against climate change
Former vice president Al Gore visited Houston on Wednesday to kick-off a tour in battleground states where he plans to boost voter ...MJ Hegar calls for greater focus on renewable energy
Texas may be an oil state, but that hasn’t stopped Senate candidates from speaking about the need for change. In a wide ...Texas lawmaker introduces bill to slap sanctions on polluting foreign corporations
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) introduced legislation this week that would allow Washington to impose financial sanctions on foreign businesses that contribute ...Signal Q&A: Royce West discusses his biggest campaign challenge, which is also the biggest prize.
The Signal’s editor Kevin Nix spoke to U.S. Senate candidate Royce West yesterday by phone about health care, climate change, the economy, ...What Texas can learn from Dallas about fighting climate change
Texas’ largest and bluest cities– Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas– are each taking steps to develop plans to fight climate change. ...California is burning. Without action on climate change, Texas could be next.
An 11-day wildfire in California has scorched thousands of acres of land and forced tens of thousands to evacuate from their homes. ...New study: Climate change made Imelda’s extreme flooding twice as likely
The News A new study is drawing the connection between Imelda, the devastating flood in southeast Texas in September, and climate change. The ...Imelda is another reminder Texas isn’t ready for climate change
On Thursday, Tropical Storm Imelda brought extreme flooding to southeast Texas, bringing with it more than 40 inches of rain in some ...Rep. Henry Cuellar says Green New Deal would ‘kill jobs’ in Texas
On Thursday, Rep. Henry Cuellar criticized the Green New Deal after presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders released his version of a climate deal. ...
