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Human-Influenced “Mass Extinction” of Earth Species Underway, Biofuels Not a Clear Climate Change Solution: UN Draft Report

A new UN draft report says Mankind is undermining the natural resources needed by Nature’s species, with up to a million to go extinct, and something must be done within ten years to head it off, bringing the report in line with last year’s UN call for rapid, sweeping and unprecedented changes in all societies to head off global warming
 
April 24, 2019

 

A new draft report from the United Nations will likely seek to blame climate change along with shrinking habitat and changes in land usage — human influenced — for a “mass extinction event” that could result in the end of one million species.

Something must be done within the next ten years to head off the worst, the report states, clearly aligning the UN study with last year’s Fourth National Climate Assessment, which called for rapid, sweeping and unprecedented changes in all societies to head off global warming……
 

Energy Resources Committee Looks At Bill to Set Back Solid Waste Sites 2 Miles From Public Schools

RRC Permitting Assistant Paul DuBois pointed out that though the RRC and the TCEQ have a memorandum of understanding that the RRC will permit such sites, the RRC does not look at air quality when doing so

 

 

April 23, 2019

 

The Texas House Energy Resources committee heard testimony on a bill to set back commercial solid waste disposal facilities at least two miles from public schools….
 

Who Owns the Well Wastewater When PIcked Up for Recycling? Bill To Clarify Now In Senate Committee

April 17, 2019

 

The committee substitute for Rep. Drew Darby‘s bill to clarify who owns the water produced from oil and gas wells when that water is picked up for recycling or other good use passed the state House on Tuesday and is now in the Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development committee after its first Senate reading….
 

“National Astroelectricity” — A Reasonable Proposal to Solve Questions Of Our Energy Future?

Avoiding politics but considering all available power sources to date, one engineer says he’s convinced that a smooth transition to sustainable energy must include all of the above for a certain period of time, but the commitment to controlling climate change will eventually require space-based multi-GW solar panels

 

April 17, 2019

 

The United States can maintain energy independence and still hold off much of the effects of global warming while still enjoying stable economic and civil systems through planning, ingenuity and use of new technologies — among them, space-based geo-synchronized solar panels that can link electricity to the Earth below along with sustainable electric power to generate synthetic carbon fuels.

That’s the contention in a proposal by a professional engineer and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who says he believes the US has appropriately avoided joining the Paris Climate Agreement but still has an obligation to address climate change and can do so efficiently by the year 2100….
 

Bill Limiting Groundwater District Permitting Moratorium Procedures Headed Out of Texas House

April 16, 2019

 

Rep. Lyle Larson‘s bill to set out specific provisions for Texas groundwater districts to keep them from violating private property rights by unduly impeding, delaying, or denying the issuance of groundwater permits passed to engrossment in the Texas House on Monday….