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President Donald Trump has come under fire after he incited a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington. A group of UH professors signed an open letter condemning the president and calling for his removal. | Renee Josse De Lisle/The Cougar
Three UH professors added their names to an
open letter started yesterday calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office by impeachment or by invocation of the 25th Amendment.
Associate political science professors Scott Clifford and Boris Shor and public affairs professor Pablo Pinto digitally signed a document from political scientists at institutions worldwide calling on Congress, Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to oust Trump from his position as the sitting president for the final two weeks of his term.
Gas is burned off from an oil well in West Texas.
A pair of bills filed for the 2021 Texas legislative session would curb the use of natural gas flaring and venting common in oil and gas drilling.
Flaring the controlled burning of excess gas and venting release the harmful greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere. Oil and gas producers in Texas flared and vented more natural gas than any other state in 2019, according to federal data.
HB 896 would direct the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to develop state standards to limit flaring and venting, while HB 897 would direct TCEQ and the Texas Railroad Commission to study existing and potential regulations to find to lower pollution “through regulations and incentives,” according to the bills sponsor, state Rep. Ron Reynolds, D-Missouri City.
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Longstanding skepticism among Texans toward the climate movement has shifted, and attitudes in the nation s leading energy-producing state now mirror those in the rest of the United States.
About 80% of Americans - almost 81% of Texans - say they believe climate change is happening, according to new research by UH Energy and the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs. Slightly lower percentages said they believe the change is driven by human activities.
Most said they are willing to pay more for electricity derived from natural gas produced without venting and flaring, electricity derived from renewable generation that factors in the cost of the grid, and low-carbon or carbon-neutral transportation fuels and other energy products.