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The Houston Central Chapter is within Beltway 8 (TX02, TX07, TX09, TX18, and TX29) and is committed to solving climate change by supporting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. In order to generate the political will necessary for passage of our Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal, we train and support our volunteers to build relationships with elected officials, the media, and their local community.

05/31/2026

Old tires as noise reducers? Researchers have found that recycled rubber in roads and sound barriers not only helps the environment—it also cuts traffic noise significantly. This sustainable solution represents a major breakthrough in both waste management and urban noise mitigation.

In real-world tests, road sections built with crumb rubber asphalt demonstrate noticeably quieter performance compared to conventional asphalt. The rubber-infused roads are quieter across all vehicle types, from cars to heavy trucks. The rubber's natural damping properties absorb and suppress sound waves more effectively than traditional materials.

Using the Statistical Pass-By method, researchers measured noise under real traffic conditions and found consistent reductions in sound levels. Testing typically shows noise reductions ranging from 1.5 to 8.6 decibels, depending on the rubber content and mixture design. These measurable improvements translate to meaningful quality-of-life benefits in urban and highway environments.

This solution creates both a quieter driving experience and a smart, sustainable way to reuse tire waste. With approximately 300 million tires discarded annually worldwide, incorporating used tires into road infrastructure represents a significant opportunity to prevent environmental accumulation while simultaneously addressing the persistent problem of traffic noise pollution.

Images are generated by AI and for demonstration purposes only.

Source: Pavement Interactive. (2026). Rubberized Asphalt and Noise Reduction Technology. Pavement Research Institute.

05/31/2026

NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS

Last week, I covered NPR’s Climate Solutions Week—one of my favorite weeks of the year. This week, I have a sad update. NPR chief climate editor Neela Banerjee announced that she had been laid off, and that the network's climate desk would no longer exist as a separate team. The cuts are part of a larger round of 10 NPR journalists laid off and at least 18 more taking buyouts after Congress clawed back $1.1 billion in public media funding.

If this feels familiar, it's because we've seen it before. Over the past year, CBS News gutted its own climate unit, laying off most of the team, including its head, Tracy Wholf, and its last climate reporter, David Schecter (who did this amazing episode of Verify with me, six years ago). Over the same time, climate reporters Sammy Roth left the LA Times and Chase Cain left NBC.

One by one, the newsrooms built to connect climate change to everyday life are being dismantled. Like NPR's desk, that CBS team didn't just report the news; it trained local stations across the country to cover climate in their own communities. This is bad news not just for journalism, but for all of us.

Most people are worried about climate change, but less than half understand how it will affect them. Bridging that head-to-heart gap (what researchers call "psychological distance") is absolutely key to turning concern into action.

For years, that’s exactly what NPR's climate journalists did—helping local stations connect the science to the lived experience of the communities they serve, showing how a warming world is reshaping daily life in ways that feel immediate and personal, not distant or abstract.

The climate crisis doesn't get smaller when we stop covering it. It just gets easier to ignore. From Katherine Hayhoe

05/30/2026

According to recent reports, some high mileage Australians are saving up to A$10,000 a year by driving an electric vehicle instead of a petrol car.

Although EVs often come with a higher purchase price, many drivers quickly begin to see the financial benefits through lower charging costs compared to traditional fuel expenses.

Electric vehicles also typically require less maintenance because they have fewer moving parts and do not need many of the routine services associated with internal combustion engines.

The biggest savings are usually seen by people who drive tens of thousands of miles each year, including rideshare drivers, delivery workers, and long distance commuters.

As EV technology continues to improve and fuel remains a major expense for many households, a growing number of Australians are finding that switching to an electric vehicle can significantly reduce annual transportation costs while also lowering emissions.🚘⚡

05/30/2026

Tesla owner David Moss has completed what he and his two travel partners are calling the world's first fully autonomous coast to coast drive across Canada, finishing the trip at the Tesla Showroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia after leaving the Horseshoe Bay Terminal in Vancouver four days and twenty one hours earlier. The car covered 3,760 miles or 6,051 kilometers on Tesla's FSD V14.3.3 build, with the group reporting zero disengagements of any kind, including when the system was asked to park the car at Tesla Superchargers along the route. That parking detail matters because Supercharger stalls often involve tight maneuvering, mixed traffic, and pedestrians, the kind of low speed environment where many drivers still intervene out of habit, and a clean zero takeover result there marks a meaningful step beyond plain highway autonomy. The drive lands on the same V14.3.3 release that owners have praised for its relaxed driver attention nag, and it reinforces the broader trajectory of an FSD stack that Tesla is positioning for the Unsupervised tier now powering its commercial Robotaxi service in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. For a cross country run that crossed mountain passes, prairie highways, multiple time zones, and major urban centers, a no takeover finish is the kind of demonstration that turns autonomy from a benchmark conversation into a tangible outcome anyone can watch.

05/30/2026

African imports of Chinese solar panels exploded to 18.8GW in 2025 (+48%), hit 10GW in March 2026 alone and jumped 83% y-on-y in April

The DRC, one of the lowest historical electrification rates on earth, saw its imports explode by 482%

In Africa, wires are burying pipes

05/28/2026

BREAKING: A Texas farmer just carved a massive warning directly into his crops so everybody flying over the Lone Star State can see it. 🌾🚨💧
The message appeared this week across a huge stretch of Texas farmland somewhere between cattle pasture, wind turbines, oil country highways, and roads currently under construction until approximately the year 2093. 😭
The farmer reportedly said:
“IF WE DON’T START TALKING ABOUT THESE DATA CENTERS NOW… WE LOSE. WATER. ENERGY. FARMLAND. THIS IS BIGGER THAN PEOPLE REALIZE.”
As massive data centers continue expanding across parts of Texas, the farmer says more people are finally starting to ask serious questions about:
• water usage during extreme drought conditions
• energy demand on an already overloaded power grid
• loss of ranchland and farmland
• and what happens when industrial infrastructure starts replacing generations of family-owned Texas land 🌾
Neighbors say the message became impossible to ignore after drone footage started spreading online showing the giant words stretching across the field beneath a “Welcome to Texas” sign while massive storm clouds rolled across the plains. 🌩️
Some residents applauded the warning immediately.
Others reportedly drove past saying: “Okay but can ERCOT survive one summer first?” ⚡💀
Meanwhile somewhere nearby:
• a longhorn is staring judgmentally across the fence
• somebody’s uncle is blaming California for all of it
• and at least one highway project somehow added another six months to construction during the conversation 😭
Farmers across Texas say this isn’t about politics anymore.
It’s about protecting Texas water, land, energy, and future before decisions get made that can’t be undone. 🤠💧

05/28/2026

A school district in Arkansas transformed its finances through a major energy modernization project that included more than 1,400 solar panels, LED lighting upgrades, new HVAC systems, improved insulation, and water efficiency measures. The initiative slashed energy consumption and operating costs, helping the district move from a $250,000 budget deficit to a $1.8 million surplus within just a few years.

Rather than letting the savings sit on a balance sheet, district leaders invested the money in teachers and students. Teacher salaries increased significantly, helping the district attract and retain talented educators while improving educational opportunities across its schools. Some teachers received raises worth thousands of dollars per year, and the district became a model for others looking to strengthen their budgets through clean energy.☀️⚡

05/28/2026

Tom Steyer enters the California governor’s race like a contractor arriving at a drought-stricken reservoir: less troubadour than estimator, less prophet than man with a ledger and a shovel. The old climate language — save the planet, hug the coast, mourn the glacier — has been swapped for talk of electric bills, irrigation pumps, tax credits, rooftop solar, and the stubborn arithmetic of daily life.
Steyer argues that clean energy is no longer sacrifice but bargain. Fossil fuels, he says, travel through chokepoints and wars; sunlight lands free on warehouse roofs in Fresno. California, long a regulatory pioneer, has become a place where building almost anything requires geological patience. Electricity prices rise like sap in summer.
So he proposes dismantling monopolies, multiplying batteries and microgrids, and accelerating electric vehicles. His campaign suggests a broader political migration: climate policy recast not as moral appeal, but as household economics and industrial competition. from Climate Forward

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