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Pence's outrageous op-ed holds deeper meaning

Jan. 18, 2020
LBJ Professor Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, wrote an opinion piece for CNN about the artic

Opinion: Are we really listening to what MLK had to say?

Jan. 18, 2020
"America's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. rests on the flawed understanding of his historic and contemporary legacy," writes LBJ Professor Peniel Joseph , Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and...

Pence's outrageous op-ed holds deeper meaning

Jan. 18, 2020
LBJ Professor Jeremi Suri , Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, wrote an opinion piece for CNN about the article published by Vice President Mike Pence in the Wall Street...

Gulf Coast oil and gas expansion will generate half a billion annual tons of emissions in U.S.: report

Jan. 15, 2020
More than half a billion tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions per year — equivalent to 8 percent of total U.S. emissions — may be generated by new oil, gas and petrochemical facilities in...

Gulf Coast oil and gas expansion will generate half a billion annual tons of emissions in U.S.: report

Jan. 15, 2020
More than half a billion tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions per year — equivalent to 8 percent of total U.S.

U.S. greenhouse gases to billow on Gulf Coast petrochemicals charge: study

Jan. 14, 2020
A multi-billion dollar boom in petrochemical plants proposed along the U.S.

U.S. greenhouse gases to billow on Gulf Coast petrochemicals charge: study

Jan. 14, 2020
A multibillion-dollar boom in petrochemical plants proposed along the U.S.

Cheap natural gas could add 500 million tons to U.S. emissions

Jan. 14, 2020
“The big insight here is that the change in the price of natural gas changes the incentives to invest in some types of downstream infrastructure,” Andrew Waxman, assistant professor at the Universi

Oil and gas boom, industrial growth could mean significant new climate emissions, study finds

Jan. 14, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas — New research from The University of Texas at Austin finds industrial buildout in oil, gas and petrochemical sectors in the U.S.

U.S. greenhouse gases to billow on Gulf Coast petrochemicals charge: study

Jan. 14, 2020
A multi-billion dollar boom in petrochemical plants proposed along the U.S. Gulf Coast could pump as much greenhouse gas into the air as 131 coal-fired power plants by 2030, according to a study...