Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned on Tuesday that federal regulation of carbon dioxide would harm the Texas and U.S. economies, pushing up energy prices and limiting growth.
Mr. Perry urged the government to consider copying Texas' renewable energy rules, which have stimulated wind power development, rather than regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Depending on how the rules work, Texas could be disproportionately affected by climate change regulations because the state has a large number of refining and chemical plants, as well as a large oil and gas industry.
Mr. Perry convened the Texas Advisory Panel on Federal Environmental Regulation to consider the effect on Texas.
The governor was responding to a federal decision earlier this month to reconsider a permit for a coal-burning power plant in Utah that wouldn't cap carbon dioxide emissions. On Nov. 13, the Environmental Protection Agency's appeals board ordered the EPA to reconsider the plant permit and either limit emissions or justify a decision not to.
The EPA is not expected to act on carbon limits before President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. But the board decision pointed to the increased likelihood that other plants could face similar challenges with the same outcome.
