The oilman talks about about the BP spill, natural gas, wind and other topics.
Kate Galbraith
Kate Galbraith covered energy and environment for the Tribune from 2010 to 2013. Previously she reported on clean energy for The New York Times from 2008 to 2009, serving as the lead writer for the Times' Green blog. She began her career at The Economist in 2000 and spent 2005 to 2007 in Austin as the magazine's Southwest correspondent. A Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard University from 2007 to 2008, she has an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. She is co-author of “The Great Texas Wind Rush,” a book about how the oil and gas state won the race to wind power.
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Boone Pickens Clip 3/3
The oilman talks about about the BP spill, natural gas, wind and other topics.
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T. Boone Pickens: The TT Interview
The oilman told the Tribune that BP’s CEO has made some verbal “boo-boos” but that offshore work must continue: “You know, we can drill those wells in the deep water.”
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Boone Pickens Clip 1/3
The oilman talks about about the BP spill, natural gas, wind and other topics.
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Navigating “Navigable”
Congress is known for having arcane battles, but the biggest fight these days in water law is over a single word in a 1970s-era measure designed to reduce pollution in America’s waterways. Texas environmentalists and ranchers are anxiously awaiting the outcome.
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TribBlog: Let’s Hear It for Building Codes
Texas will adopt stricter energy efficiency requirements for new buildings, the State Energy Conservation Office announced today. They will go into effect in 2011 and 2012.
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TribBlog: The Spillover Effect
The oil spill has so far bypassed Texas, but Houston could still see a big impact — in the courtrooms.
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The Pollution Wars
Since last week’s announcement that the EPA is getting tough on Texas, the state and the feds have been going at it. But does alll the hubbub mean that the air we breathe is dangerous?
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TribBlog: W. is for Wind
Former President George W. Bush appeared in rousing, joke-cracking form in a rare speech this morning the American Wind Energy Association’s conference in Dallas. He praised Texas wind energy, bashed the media, refused to bash his successor and said his grandchildren will be driving electric cars. He also gave away the first line of his forthcoming memoir, a quote from his wife that got him to quit drinking.
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State of Readiness
Could a BP-style oil spill happen closer to our shores, threatening our fisheries and beaches? Of course. But Texas reformed its process for dealing with such a catastrophe two decades ago, and state officials say we’re better prepared than other states to respond to — or better still, prevent — a major spill.