Coloradexan. Writer/editor of @oil_watch by @EnviroIntegrity. Trailist outdoor column for @SAReport. Board chair w/ River Aid SA: https://xitter.cf/t.co/Kgso7d1qeU
San Antonio, TX
Joined June 2008
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That’s right y’all it’s me and the guitarist from Whitesnake in Dublin on Sunday. Don’t miss it!!
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🌟PEOPLE🌟COME ONE..COME ALL Kick back, get comfy Mmmm!..& watch the SENSATIONAL **JOEL HOEKSTRA—of the legendary bands **Whitesnake & **Accept & **Revolution Saints
Seats are going fast
🎸@whelanslive June 9 2024 🎸
@joelhoekstra13 & @BGibbs
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It's pretty shocking that we have no data on how many people have died from extreme heat in one of the hottest cities in the U.S.
To protect communities from extreme heat, the Bexar County Medical Examiner and San Antonio Metro Health District must prioritize tracking and recording heat-related deaths.
Sign the @MyDeceleration petition if you live in Bexar or San Antonio👇
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
This Giving Tuesday, please join me in supporting River Aid San Antonio’s efforts to keep our local watersheds clean!
Pay.RiverAid.org to donate
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Learned a ton about the failures of plastics recycling - both conventional (aka mechanical) and chemical - during this interview with @enckj of @PlasticsBeyond.
Check out our latest episode of the Environmental Integrity Podcast!
Listen Now: l8r.it/yzCi
@PlasticsBeyond
For @EnviroIntegrity's latest pod, I interviewed @PublicCitizenTX's Adrian Shelly about Proposition 7, which would funnel up to $10 billion in taxpayer money to natural gas power plant developers.
Today is the last day of early voting ends, with Election Day next Tues., Nov. 7!
Check out our latest episode of the Environmental Integrity Podcast!
Listen Now: l8r.it/KPN2
@TexasSierraClub @txenvironment @HealthyGulf @txenvironment @ChispaTexas
It really is that simple!
I am drafting federal legislation to connect Texas to the national electric grids.
People shouldn’t lose power in a heat wave or a winter storm. When we need help, we’ll draw power from other states, and when other states need help, we can sell power to them. It’s that simple.
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Thank you, @GJGarciaSanchez! Would highly recommend you to anyone looking to better understand energy issues in Mexico and how they affect relations with the U.S. and other countries.
It was a pleasure to share my views with @bgibbs on US-Mexico energy relations and how they impact US LNG exports to Asia. When it comes to natural gas, intl companies learnt how to convince the AMLO administration to work with them. Not the same fate of other energy companies.
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For @oil_watch, I dug into the compliance history of the Shell chemical plant in Deer Park that burned through the weekend.
One 2013 violation I found involved releasing ~40,000 lbs each of carcinogens 1,3-butadiene and benzene
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post…
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From that Atlanta episode with the two white women who murdered their foster kids
This salad is both dead simple to make and highly luscious. It gets a velvety richness from the avocados. nyti.ms/3oJ2vfk
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I remember watching videos of the 2013 ammonium nitrate (AN) fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX, that killed 15 people
10 years later, EPA has still not added AN to its list of hazardous chemicals that would require better disaster prevention at the 1,300 sites that store AN
10 years after a fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, the U.S. is seeing massive growth in the nitrogen fertilizer industry.
12 new projects are planned that could boost the industry's capacity by 55%
Read the full report by @EnviroIntegrity here:
environmentalintegrity.org/r…
Sometimes I dip my toe into the swamp. My latest for @oil_watch
With Dems in control of the Senate/White House, most of the GOP's energy package won’t survive.
But some Senate leaders have said that they're still open to “permitting reform" to streamline major projects.
@AppVoices @SierraClub @EnviroIntegrity
news.oilandgaswatch.org/post…
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Matt Taibbi's old work was often excellent, especially at Rolling Stone, when he had editors. Journalism can never be a solo mission, every writer needs questioning their methods and data *before* publication
Me: "It's just error after error, Matt?"
@mtaibbi: "Well, that is an error."
Watch me confront Matt Taibbi with multiple, unacknowledged, and glaring mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting.
Full @MehdiHasanShow interview later tonight. Preview:
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Ridiculous how many people who lived through this and should remember now think of him as a sweet, elderly painter. So many lives lost, so much wasted.
Since the 20th anniversary has spurred a lot of (overdue) discussion on the subject, here are 10 disclosures from my 2020 book, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq:
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Happy St. Patrick's Day from this descendent of an Irish immigrant who came here with nothing, worked as servant for a rich guy in Indiana, and was allowed to build a better life.
We are a nation of immigrants and can't shut the door on those who just want the same thing
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In fairness: Alamo Promise (free community college), getting CPS to agree to phase out coal before 2030, getting (small) CPS rebates back to customers, shifting sales tax to workforce development, then VIA (some people hated this). None singlehanded, but he put in work on each
I like to play this game where I ask people who like @Ron_Nirenberg to name one single important thing he’s accomplished during his term as mayor.
She's really given new meaning to the "our slope is dope" catchphrase
Rep. Boebert (R-CO): “We have more than 25% of federal employees not logging into work.”
@USOPM Dir. Kiran Ahuja: “I do take issue with the characterization.”
Boebert: “It’s in this leaked document.”
Ahuja: “You’re basing that from 2020, which is in the last administration.”
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Here's @LindseyGCarnett absolutely crushing it on the air quality beat.
And @AlamoAreaCOG, at what point do you admit that you have utterly failed San Antonio on this issue? Stop blaming Mexico and get to work on actual solutions.
sanantonioreport.org/vehicle…
And of course cc-ing @TCEQ on this failure, because they have actual regulatory power. But what would we expect from a state agency that's too scared to even put ozone monitors in West Texas, home to the world's top oil-producing region?
While the competition focused on narrow, individual narratives -- the owner's and the dog's -- @raquelltorrres offered a much more useful look at flaws in the system.
ACS got complaints about two dogs before they killed a man last week, but could not compel their owner to act because of a lack of paperwork. sanantonioreport.org/attack-…
One of the greatest Texans who ever lived
"I'll only be one of 435. But the 434 will know I'm there," Rep Barbara Jordan of #TX was born #OTD 1936. #HappyBirthday #BlackHistoryMonth bit.ly/3I16hFx
ALT Black and white head shot of Barbara Jordan
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