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Energy Technology

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Exxon's New Giant Oil Find Could Meet World Needs For....A Couple of Months

    Fighting with the feds over who gets that sweet, sweet oil​The energy world is marveling today at news that ExxonMobil's recent discovery in the Gulf of Mexico could contain up to a billion barrels of oil. "The only thing that surprised the energy industry more than Exxon Mobil Corp.'s mammot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    EPA Hits Texas, Other States With Tougher Air Pollution Regulations: Cue Outrage From Rick Perry, Greg Abbott

    Feds up the ante in battle against TCEQ, Perry​The Environmental Protection Agency announced stricter rules on air pollution, rules that will especially affect Texas, whose politicians have been fighting tenaciously to avoid federal regulation of the state's many pollution producers. The EPA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Drilling Ban Lifted: Five (Possible) New Federal Mandates

    The Obama administration has lifted the ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but it is also enforcing steps to make sure a disaster such as the Deepwater Horizon leak never, ever happens again.Don't worry, we have a plan​The feds have outlined a bunch of tough new regulations and g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    The Green Scene in Fredericksburg

    Photo by jonlThe Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association at the 2008 Roundup.​Attention, Houston-area organic chefs, farmers and food producers: Fredericksburg wants you! The annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair, which takes place this year from September 24 to 26, is l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Lone Star Landowner's Challenge Features Houston Contestant

    ​Last year's Landowner's Challenge -- a yearly contest sponsored by Lone Star Beer to judge who the truest Texan is among a group of finalists -- bestowed its winner with nearly two acres of land in Independence, Texas. This year's Landowner's Challenge will be held tomorrow night at Griff's ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2010

    Beyond the Motor City

    Getting Detroit residents out of their cars and onto a bus or train won't be an easy job

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Rep. Pete Olson, Standing Up Against Those Pesky Pollution Rules

    Texas can police its own air, thankyouverymuch.​Republican U.S. Congressman Pete Olson may not officially be the poster boy for the oil and gas industry, but one could argue that he's really bucking for the job. Last week, Olson of Sugar Land announced that he and a few other politicians on Capit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Nude Protest Over Oil: PR Spin Worse Than BP, Dammit

    Who doesn't love a nude protest?​We don't know much about public relations, but if we sent out a press release titled, "Naked Protesters Bare All Against Dirty Oil," we'd at least deliver the naked protesters. But maybe that's not why we're in public relations, because this afternoon, inside the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Windpower Woodstock: George W. Bush, Limitless Swag & A Burgeoning Success Story

    Windmills in Texas -- as romantic-looking as in Holland​We used to love when oxymoronic news broke because a former editor would always exclaim, "Dogs are sleeping with cats! Film at 11!" Canines definitely hooked up with felines at Windpower 2010 this week in Dallas, where former President George ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Rick Perry Blames God For Gulf Oil Spill

    The alleged culprit, giving the order to blow Deepwater Horizon​A lot of people are quick to blame BP, or the people who put together the oil rig that is currently spewing black gold into the Gulf of Mexico, but Rick Perry -- the only governor we have at the moment -- knows better.Speaking at a Wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    London Calling...With Love

    ​The Financial Times, a London-based paper that covers finances and times, has just given Houston a big, wet, sloppy soul kiss.Reporter Sheila McNulty wrote the article, headlined "Houston: Where Energy Is King."Let's just bask in the love....-- "With billions of dollars in investments being poure ... More >>

  • Music

    January 28, 2010

    Houston 2020: The Future Is Unwritten

    But hey, that's not stopping Noise.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Houston To Become Another Detroit, Expert Says

    ​If the Ike cat story was the feel-good item of the morning, here's your Debbie Downer special. Houston, and it's energy industry, is doomed, and we just might become a new Detroit, one expert says."So could Houston be replaced by Japanese consumer electronics firms? Yes, easily," says Dana Blanke ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    The Ice at Discovery Green

    Warm weather won't keep Houstonians from ice skating outdoors

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2009

    ACL 2009: The Green Scene

    Photos by Katharine ShilcuttYes, those are chickens. At ACL.​The freshly-planted grass isn't the only thing that's green in Zilker Park this year. Since we're in super hippie fun land Austin, after all, it only makes sense that there's a huge emphasis on the environment at the festival. From a dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Oil Industry Leaving Houston? It Could Happen, Some Analysts Say

    Photo courtesy GHCVB​A Houston without an oil industry? Why, that's like Dallas without assholes.But it could happen, according to speakers at a panel here today. (The Houston part, not the Dallas part.)The RMI Oilfield Breakfast Forum featured dire warnings that Obama's tax policies might e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Stimulus Funds Helping Houston Firm Give Out Free Home Fixes

    Photo courtesy Sheltering ArmsPeople are sometimes suspicious when one of Scott Pool's inspectors calls. The offer -- to weatherize one's house for free -- sounds too good to be true. "We have to convince them that, really and truly, nobody's going to charge them," says Pool, the weatherization ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Texas Leads The "Filthy 15"!! Ummm, Yay?

    Photo courtesy NIOSHIn case you were worrying that the air in Texas was getting too clean and all, you can rest assured it's not.Now it's coal ash that has the greenies up in arms.The National Resources Defense Council has released a list of states that are proposing to build enough new coal plants ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    Star Trek for the Ages

    From West U to deep space

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    John McCain in Houston

    From West U to deep space

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    Bayousphere

    From West U to deep space

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Robert Redford introduces Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars

    An actor/activist discusses the dangers of coal and the importance of unity

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    Kyoto Protocol: Chill Out

    Skeptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg questions the Kyoto Protocol's effectiveness

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    Kyoto Protocol: You're Getting Warmer

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2007

    It’s Not Like It’s Rocket Science

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Woodwind Lakes subdivision built on oil and gas field turns on neighbor who pointed out the contamination

    The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its tenth anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?

  • Music

    February 22, 2007

    Hot Buttered Rum

    Hot Buttered Rum performs Sunday, February 25, at the Last Concert Café, 1403 Nance Street, 713-226-8563.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2006

    Rescue in a Box

    Hot Buttered Rum performs Sunday, February 25, at the Last Concert Café, 1403 Nance Street, 713-226-8563.

  • Home Entertainment

    June 22, 2006

    Shark Bites

    JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Architect

    JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Talk Radio

    Home Improvement Hotline

  • News

    June 21, 2001

    Letters

    Scaling Green Mountain, Where Credit's Due, Horse-Whipped

  • News

    May 22, 1997

    Brothers of the Road

    'The I-69 "NAFTA Highway" is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Thanks to your tax dollars, it's already provided a very good one for the underemployed brother of Tom DeLay.

  • News

    March 13, 1997

    Larry in Limbo

    Is little guy Larry Duncan being made to suffer for the big guys' sins?

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