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Climate change in Texas school textbooks is causing friction in America’s biggest oil and gas state

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By ACACIA CORONADO
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — How science textbooks address climate change is up for a vote in Texas. Some Republicans on the Texas State Board of Education say they’re too negative toward fossil fuels in America’s biggest oil and gas state. Texas has more than 1,000 school districts and none are obligated to use textbooks approved by the board. But the board’s endorsement carries weight. The National Science Teaching Association urged the board not to “allow misguided objections to evolution and climate change” to impact the adoption of new textbooks. The vote on which new textbooks to approve is expected to take place Friday.

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