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Luke Metzger

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Executive Director of Environment Texas www.EnvironmentTexas.org Senior Advisor, TexPIRG #txlege #ActOnClimate

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Ah, great point!

23.02.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love all these bike racks on the train from BWI to DC! (It’s Sunday night, so not surprising they’re not in use right now).

22.02.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Climate change wrapped: The top five Texas climate moments of 2025 A year of deadly floods, rising pollution, and real progress on clean energy

environmentamerica.org/texas/center...

08.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Instead of β€œdestroying virgin land, Texas can locate new data centers and other high-tech industries at retiring coal plant sites” which have β€œland, transportation networks, and most importantly, vital infrastructure and high-voltage grid connections.” www.archpaper.com/2026/01/texa...

28.01.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Wind and solar producing 1/3 of electricity in ERCOT right now, with batteries charging to use later.

25.01.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

FYI you have a typo in the transcript- it’s spelled β€œprise”

11.01.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some good news - there were three times as many EVs on the road in 2024 than in 2020.

07.01.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Left-Right Social Media Tiff Pushed Texas to Fund Parks

Proud to have our big state parks victory profiled in the New York Times (yes, I’m still on X) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

28.12.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump May Give 775 Acres of a Federal Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...

23.12.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Harry Truman doesn’t get enough credit for the Berlin airlift and confirming that American might would stay in Western Europe as long as necessary to preserve democracy there. You can easily imagine a President abandoning Europe after WWII, feeling like the US had done enough.

23.12.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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San Antonio has one of the best greenway trail systems in the country β€” and it’s still growing. Over the past 25 years, the greenway trail system has expanded to over 103 miles.

Learn more about the Howard Peak Greenway Trail: bit.ly/48ZCD20

✍️+πŸ“½οΈ: Priscilla Aguirre

21.12.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WWII government propaganda poster to get people to conserve resources. What kind of message would work today to accomplish the same goal?

15.12.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe fight, get beat, rise, and fight again” - American Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene

06.12.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A new initiative from the Texas A&M Forest Service could allow landowners in areas struck by natural disasters to claim up to $80,000 to plant more trees on their property

04.12.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

30.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1021    πŸ” 394    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 41
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TIL about the Barrage Balloon Brigade. This all African-American force protected troops storming the beaches of Normandy by preventing enemy aircraft from flying close enough to bomb or fire from overhead. The cables anchoring the balloons also entangled planes. Pretty cool!

30.11.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Plant wildflower seeds now after recent rain in San Antonio Recent rains make it ideal to sow wildflower seeds, thin irises, remove unwanted seedlings, and time lawn care for Texas yards.

Recent rains make it ideal to sow wildflower seeds, thin irises, remove unwanted seedlings, and time lawn care for Texas yards.

28.11.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The latest books my 10 yr old daughter checked out of the library. She says she now wants a how-to manual for protesting. 😍

27.11.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is our world now :(

18.11.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps unpopular opinion- Cybertrucks are ugly and I’d never buy one, but they’re all electric, so I respect their drivers more than I do of gas guzzling SUVs.

17.11.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.

β€œPanels installed flat against the roof, in particular, fared well. Some rooftop solar owners have taken to removing their panels ahead of strong winds. Many were already back online.”

08.11.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Friday (11/7) #bcstx topped off at 87Β° -- the THIRD WARMEST in 143 years of record keeping.

πŸ”΄ Unusual, near-record warmth made at least TWICE as likely due to human-caused climate change.

This trend? Already playing out in real-time
β€’ 2023 & 2024 β€” tied #1
β€’ 2022, 2018 β€” tied #3

08.11.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’ll miss you, Speaker Pelosi! Thank you for all you did for the climate. (Photo from 2007)

08.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nurdles are infesting Texas waters; environment group pushes for stricter standards A tiny pellet is harming wildlife and entering our waterways. A new push from non-profit Environment Texas is aiming to change state water quality standards and reduce the amount of these pellets i…

www.kxan.com/news/science...

07.11.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Zavala Elementary PTA 2025-2026 Fundraiser

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19.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Zavala Elementary PTA is working to raise $7500 this year to support our sweet little east Austin school. We need new chairs for the library, we want to restore some of the field trips which were cut this year in a budget-saving measure, and more. Can you pitch in? Thank you!

19.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🏞️ A massive new state park, spanning 54,000 acres, could soon reshape outdoor life in Texas. Here's where: bit.ly/3WxVTha

09.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sunset at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas
Second largest canyon in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd only to the Grand Canyon.
Also the site where the last Indian wars in Texas were held, Comanche & Kiowa vs. US Cavalry.
Photo from: Texas Parks and Wildlife, 2024

26.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

If you like Caddo Lake State Park, you can thank Lady Bird Johnson's father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor. In 1934 Thomas donated to the state about two-thirds of the land (some 385 acres) composing the park.

This lovely photo taken by Louis Vest.

30.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 566    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2
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I led most of my TX colleagues in opposition to Trump's recent effort to deny and unravel basic climate science.

Preventing EPA from acknowledging that greenhouse gas emissions harm our health will prevent us from maintaining modest climate action or taking necessary steps to cut emissions further.

18.09.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0