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“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 University...

New research from The University of Texas at Austin finds industrial buildout in oil, gas and petrochemical sectors in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Southwest regions could generate more than half a billion tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2030. That figure is equivalent to 8 percent of total current annual U.S. emissions. These emissions are driven by the regions’ oil and gas boom, and a substantial fraction comes from large industrial facilities such as new petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas export terminals and refineries. The vast majority of these emissions will come from Texas and Louisiana.

A multibillion-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 released on Tuesday by University of Texas at Austin researchers.

"Australia has been burning for more than two months," write Joshua Busby and Matto Mildenberger in the Washington Post . "Sobering images show summer vacationers sheltering from the flames while...

LBJ Professor Will Inboden, chair of the Clements Center for National Security, commented to The Hill on the Trump administration's take that it doesn't matter whether Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani posed an imminent threat to the U.S.

LBJ Professor Will Inboden, chair of the Clements Center for National Security, commented

"Australia has been burning for more than two months," write Joshua Busby and Matto Mildenberger in the Washington Post

"There is a bright light in America’s very dark sky," writes LBJ's Ruth Wasem in The Hill.

"There is a bright light in America's very dark sky," writes LBJ's Ruth Wasem in The Hill. "Despite a highly partisan Congress struggling to enact legislation and a president erupting in xenophobic tweets, a positive immigration provision became manifest during the holiday season. Nestled in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 that President Trump signed Dec. 20, 2019, is the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (section 7611). For the first time in over 20 years, foreign nationals from a country who had been given blanket relief from removal for humanitarian reasons now have the statutory authority to become lawful permanent residents (LPRs).

Experts on economics, climate change, politics and social policy, political leaders and activists will explore the elements of a "Green New Deal" in Europe and America and the "European New Deal" project of the Democracy in Europe Movement during the New Deals in Europe and America conference.