Working Towards Clean Energy Is Important To Me As A Latina

Working Towards Clean Energy Is Important To Me As A Latina

Mary Mata January 19, 2012

By Sonya Cortez Corpus Christi, Texas — I am the most important person in the United States: a young, unmarried, Hispanic female. So according to the research, I am part […]

Energy Efficiency Now Core Of Americans’ Housing Dreams

Mary Mata January 17, 2012

By Philip Henderson A recent Yahoo survey about the American consumer’s evolving view of housing provides interesting and strong evidence of a definite market trend.  According to the Yahoo survey, energy efficiency […]

The Grand Canyon To Be Protected From Uranium Mining

Mary Mata January 10, 2012

In what is a defining moment, the Obama administration announced this week measures that will protect the Grand Canyon from future mining activities on over a million acres of public […]

Farmers May Continue Feeding Antibiotics To Healthy Cattle

Mary Mata January 3, 2012

By Barry Estabrook The Food and Drug Administration has done everything in its power to prevent you from reading this post. Just before the holidays, the agency charged with protecting Americans’ […]

Energy Efficiency Can Help Us Turn The Economy Around

Mary Mata December 29, 2011

By David Golstein Recent economic news is not encouraging. The New York Times reports that when it comes to recovery, “experts see a false dawn.” One particularly troubling area is housing, where […]

Clean Air Laws Don’t Kill Jobs; Pollution, Climate Change Do

Mary Mata December 27, 2011

By Peter Lehner Ron Craft is a fourth-generation cotton ginner in Plains, Texas struggling through a tough year.Earlier in the fall, he predicted business would drop by 75 percent, and […]

TX, Chicago Latinos Affected By EPA Mercury Regulations

Mary Mata December 20, 2011

By Robert Crowe The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce new rules for mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired and oil-fired power plants. Anticipation of the rules sparked a […]

New Study Links Climate Change to Higher Medical Costs

Mary Mata December 13, 2011

By Frances Beinecke  When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. […]

Latino Support Vital To Preserve Colorado River

Mary Mata December 6, 2011

Though its name might be a little misleading, the Colorado River flows through seven states, running over 1,400 miles through the U.S. Southwest before emptying out into the Gulf of […]

South TX Oil Fields: Short-Term Benefits, Long-Term Probs

Mary Mata December 1, 2011

By Roberto R. Calderón So here we are again visiting the subject of the developing oil and gas field by intensive fracking technologies in a wide swath of South Texas counties. The Eagle Ford […]