Why Texas’s fossil fuel support will ‘spell disaster’ for climate crisis

The state - which leads the way as US output of oil and gas is forecast to rise 25% in the next decade - is intensifying its production pipeline by pipeline

In the same month that Greta Thunberg addressed a UN summit and millions of people took part in a global climate strike, lawmakers in America's leading oil- and gas-producing state of Texas made a statement of their own.

Texas's Critical Infrastructure Protection Act went into effect on 1 September, stiffening civil and criminal penalties specifically for protesters who interrupt operations or damage oil and gas pipelines and other energy facilities.