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Cleaning up coal in West Texas expected to help fuel San Antonio and wring out the oil patchnew
There's a mean-sounding hiss emanating from one of a dozen pipes rising like stovepipe to feed into a desert-tan battery that intermittently flushes high volumes of fluids 4,500 feet below ground.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-26-2012 |
Environment
Texas Republican Party The Real 'Extremist' in Climate Fightnew
Hot? Dumb question. Unless you work in an ice factory, movie theater, or chilly data center, you know you are.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-23-2012 |
Environment
Fate of natural Texas rests on landowners and smart conservationnew
You don't need to ride our highways or jockey for parking at our many strip malls to know San Antonio has been growing.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
03-31-2012 |
Environment
Placenta Shampoos, BPA, and Monsanto's Genetic Empirenew
We are experimental people. By that, I don't mean we like to tinker. Though tinker we certainly do.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-29-2012 |
Environment
Nuclear Waste Dump Push Will Put Texas Back in Federal Sightsnew
Nuclear energy may be on the ropes post Fukushima's explosive meltdowns, but 70 years of U.S. bomb and power plant waste doesn't dissipate so easily.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-01-2012 |
Environment
Punishing Drought Just Getting Started in Texasnew
Natural weather cycles delivered the worst one-year drought in the historic record to Texas in 2011. Scientists examining tree rings had to go back as far as 1789 to find a worse one.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
01-02-2012 |
Environment
Tags: drought in Texas
Occupy San Antonio Prepares for the Long Haulnew
A homeless man crushed inside a city garbage truck Monday on the city’s Southside provided the rallying cry for Occupy San Antonio protestors gathered in HemisFair Park. As drums began to ring through the night air, the group of about 30 took to the streets in yet another show of insult and outrage in this Age of Austerity, as Republicans and Democrats negotiate major cuts in federal assistance programs to rein in a skyrocketing national debt.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
11-02-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Pro-Lifer’s War on the EPA a Morally Bankrupt Casenew
In the nearly 40-year war that has been the battle over abortion in the United States, liberals have frequently complained about the hypocrisy of those who prostrate themselves before medical clinics and yet fail to turn out for a single state-sanctioned execution or war protest.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-27-2011 |
Environment
Years After Chemical and Mold Exposures, ‘San Antonio Seven’ Still Sidelined by Illnessnew
Chronic pain. Chronic fatigue. Regular ER visits. Memory loss and confusion. Seizures.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-21-2011 |
Environment
Tags: san antonio seven
Children's Toxics Study Recruiting San Antonio Babiesnew
"We really don't know much about the environmental exposures that children have and how those may contribute to environmental diseases," said Dr. Donald Dudley, vice chair for research in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-14-2011 |
Children & Families
9/11: A Legacy of Errorsnew
The attacks of September 11 brought me back to the world.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
09-14-2011 |
Crime & Justice
San Antonio’s New Smoking Ordinance Explainednew
Smoking, according to City Code, is “inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant, or other combustible substance in any manner or in any form.”
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-22-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: smoking ban
In pursuit of a ‘better’ city, less tangible values become paramountnew
Travel magazines thrive on tourist recommendations that puncture popular myths about seemingly familiar places. In San Antonio’s rapid transformation across a number of sectors, today’s mapmakers can be excused for mostly missing the boat.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-25-2011 |
Economy
‘Clean’ Coal Sticks Its Snout Under San Antonio's Tentnew
In the slow-motion planetary train wreck that is fossil-fuel-derived climate disruption — whether you call it global warming, global ‘weirding,’ or a worldwide conspiracy of the labcoat class — no one factor ranks higher in the blame game than coal.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
07-14-2011 |
Environment
Endangered Species Act Has Kept the Water Flowing in Texas, and it Won't Stop the Oilnew
Despite all the political huffing you hear coming from Texas these days, the federal Endangered Species Act has actually been an economic boon to Texas.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
06-09-2011 |
Environment
