by Scott Atnip | Sep 12, 2025 | Disaster Responses and Resilience, Latest Posts, Legislative, Weekly Witness
This week we are talking with friend of Texas Impact, Cyrus Reed, Legislative and Conservation Director with the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. There has been a lot of talk about flooding following the July 4 floods, but spoiler–folks were actually talking...
by Scott Atnip | Aug 1, 2025 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Legislative, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
The Texas Legislature is nearing the end of the second week of the special session, but in this episode, we want to focus on the Thursday July 31 hearing in Kerrville, TX that focused on the July 4 flooding in Central Texas. Our listeners will remember seeing the...
by Scott Atnip | Sep 23, 2024 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
This week we are talking weather and climate from an interesting perspective as we welcome two former colleagues of our very own Dr. Becca Edwards. With us are Dr. Ian Giammanco who serves as Director of Standards and Data Analytics and Lead Research Meteorologist at...
by Becca Edwards | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Latest Posts
In a recent article on Climate Connections, meteorologist Jeff Masters stated plainly what is at stake for the housing market if we fail to prepare for climate change impacts in the United States: “In the U.S., the most likely major economic disruption from climate...
by Scott Atnip | May 31, 2024 | Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
We talk weather this week with Dr. Becca Edwards, Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow. Originally because we wanted to talk about Hurricane Season, which begins this weekend and runs through November, but seems like most of Texas has already endured at least one...
by Bobby Watson | Dec 9, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
One of the interesting aspects of COP is its ability to put certain issues into perspective. Often US and Texas officials characterize migration as a foreign phenomenon, where political fragility or economic strife causes residents of the Global South to migrate to...
