Guardian: News that a Texas city is to be powered by 100% renewable energy sparked surprise in an oil-obsessed, Republican-dominated state where fossil fuels are king and climate change activists were described as the equivalent of the flat-earthers by US senator and GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz.
I was called an Al Gore clone, a tree-hugger, says Jim Briggs, interim city manager of Georgetown, a community of about 50,000 people some 25 miles north of Austin.
Briggs, who was a key player in Georgetowns...