Powershift 2009 officially begins today, and I am so jealous I can’t be there. If you haven’t heard of Powershift, here’s a brief description from their website: In the middle of our new administration’s first 100 days, Power Shift 09 will bring 10,000 young people to Washington to hold our elected officials accountable for rebuilding [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Las Brisas Hearing is Big Success
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged clean economy coalition, coal plant, corpus christi, del mar, environmental defense fund, fire marshall, kris-tv, las brisas, preliminary hearing, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, smith, soah, state office of adminstrative hearings on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Corpus Christi residents stirred up quite a stink at the Las Brisas preliminary hearing last Tuesday. Four hundred residents showed up to make their feelings known about the coal plant, which if built will be clearly visible from Town Hall. Originally the hearing was to be held in a 50 person capacity room, which was [...]
Air Freshener
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air freshener, clean coal, Coal, coen brothers, cool coal, joe camel, joel and ethan coen, reality coalition on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reality Coalition has a new ad up on their website directed by none other than Joel and Ethan Coen. Check it out, short and sweet: Also, according to the Reality Blog, a new spin ad by the coal industry tries to dress up a cartoon-y hunk of coal in sunglasses to make it seem [...]
EPA to Reconsider Standards for Particulate Matter
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged appeals court, diesel engines, galveston-houston association for smog prevention, ghasp, houston chronicle, matthew tejada, New York Times, particulate matter, PM, power plants, soot, steven johnson on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A federal appeals court yesterday ordered the EPA to reconsider its standards for pollutants, particularly particulate matter (PM). Fine particulates, such as soot, have been linked to premature death, asthma, lung cancer, and heart disease. Furthermore, black carbon soot is a major greenhouse player, as it absorbs and then radiates massive amounts of heat back [...]
Teachers Union and LULAC Join Las Brisas Opponents
Posted in Coal, tagged american federation of teachers union, chase power, corpus chrisit caller times, corpus christi, crosstown expressway, environmental discrimination, juan guerra, kathleen smith, las brisas power plant, league of united latin america citizens council, lulac on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Two new groups, the local American Federation of Teachers union and the League of United Latin American Citizens Council No. 1 (LULAC) have joined the coalition formed in opposition to Corpus Christi’s proposed Las Brisas Power Plant, reports the Caller-Times. At a membership meeting last week, 38 members of the teacher’s union voted unanimously to [...]
NRG Coal Plant Hearing Protest
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Water Action, co2, coal plant, environment texas, EPA, epa vs mass, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, Karen Hadden, luke metzger, nrg limestone, permit application, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, SEED Coalition, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, texas climate emergency campaign, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last Friday two administrative law judges refused to hear testimony on the impact of carbon dioxide emissions during the permitting process for the NRG Limestone coal-fired power plant. The contested case hearing for NRG’s air quality permit application will be going on all week long, but testimony on the proposed plant’s contribution to global warming [...]
Save the Austin Solar Plant!
Posted in Renewables, tagged austin city council, environment texas, public citien, solar plant, solar power, the watchmen, Webberville on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back we reported on the Austin City Council’s decision to delay their vote on the proposed Webberville solar plant. Local environmental groups are working now to rally public support for this plant. This is the time to show the council that Austin wants more solar power, Now! Go to Environment Texas’s internet action [...]
Public Citizen Texas on Flickr
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flickr, photostream, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas, texas vox on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To prevent Texas Vox from being flooded by pictures of all the cool stuff we’re up to, Public Citizen Texas has created a photostream on Flickr. Check it out. We’ll keep you updated as we make new additions.
Act Now!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged big ask, climate change, Global Warming on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This sweet little British girl KNOWS WHAT’S UP. Check out a gorgeous video, created by The Big Ask campaign:
What’s in Store for the 81st Legislative Session
Posted in Efficiency, Renewables, tagged ACEEE, alliance for a clean texas, american council for an energy effient economy, appliance efficiency standards, committee assignments, energy demand, Energy Efficiency, incentives, LoanSTAR, renewable energy, Renewables, retrofits, solar, systems benefit fund, Texas, utilties code, wind, wind energy on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the announcement of the Texas Legislature Committee rosters, I thought that some light should be shed on the 2009 Legislative Recommendations as posted by the Alliance for a Clean Texas. You can read the full reports here, but here’s a quick-read version for renewable energy and energy efficiency issues: Diversify our Renewable Energy Mix. [...]
Public Citizen Knows How to Party!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Public Citizen, texas energy future on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had a meet a greet after the Texas Energy Future conference yesterday, and Boy Oh Boy was it a rip-roaring good time. Here are a few pictures of last night’s festivities. Look for yourself if you were there, and if you missed out… be jealous, and next time, Get Your Butts Over Here! Public [...]
Another Reason to Support a 2,000 MW Distributed Solar Goal
Posted in Global Warming, tagged China, Pasadena, roger efird, solar, solar cells, sunpower, suntech, Texas, texas energy future, tom werner on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve said before that if Texas adopts a policy goal of 2,000 MW of distributed solar by 2020 (the equivalent of solar on 500,000 homes), the state will be able to create as many as 21,500 jobs, stabilize energy prices, and avoid 29 million tons of climate change pollution. But wait, there’s more! At the [...]
Green Jobs, Clean Power!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, alliance for a clean texas, California, clean jobs, climate change, denver museum of nature, Energy Efficiency, green power, Lloyd Doggett, mark strama, obama, Rodney Ellis, solar, state legislature, Texas, texas capitol, van jones, wind energy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bright and early yesterday morning, US Representative Lloyd Doggett, State Senator Rodney Ellis, State Representative Mark Strama, and environmental and civil rights advocate Van Jones stood together to tout the Alliance for a Clean Texas’ Texas Energy Future: Clean Jobs, Green Power Conference. Rodney Ellis opened up the press conference, stating that this year’s legislative [...]
Jackson to Reverse Johnson’s Reversal!
Posted in Coal, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, co2, Coal, coal fired power plant, david bookbinder, Desert Power Electric Cooperative, emissions, environmental defense fund, EPA, federal register, Global Warming, global warming emissions, Massachusetts v EPA, midnight memo, natural resources defense council, Sierra Club, Stephen Johnson, utah on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Breaking News! Remember back in December, when I was having a daily conniption due to various midnight memos and parting shots from the outgoing Bush administration? Particularly troubling was former EPA administrator Stephen Johnson’s decision to reverse the landmark Bonanza decision. Well, now Johnson’s reversal has been reversed. Last November the EPA’s governance board ruled [...]
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