This just in from EPA: LOS ANGELES – U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant step to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Administrator will announce a proposal requiring large [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Boxer and Kerry take two steps forward and two steps back on climate, but EPA looks ready to go!
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged ACES, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, CEJAPA, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Congress, EPA, Global Warming, green jobs, Kerry-Boxer, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, senate, solar, waxman-markey on September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Four more contentions added to STP nuke expansion legal fight – isn’t it time for CPS and San Antonio to reconsider?
Posted in Nuclear, tagged CPS, CPS Energy, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, San Antonio, SEED Coalition, South Texas Project, STP, Texas on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great news about the legal fight against STP. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel admitted four more of the contentions (all water related) brought by SEED Coalition, bringing the grand total to 5 contentions admitted for a hearing with 7 still pending. This is more than anywhere else in the country. This increased uncertainty [...]
Reminder Post: Nuclear reactors too expensive
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged CPS, matthew johnson, Nuclear, nuclear reactors, Public Citizen, South Texas Project, STP, too expensive on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In case you didn’t catch our editorial in the San Antonio Express News this summer, it’s worth repeating. NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE By Matthew Johnson – Express-News Guest Voices CPS Energy announced its cost estimate for two more nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project near Bay City last week. The $13-billion price tag [...]
Dallas Journalist Shares “6 things economists wish journalists knew about greenhouse gas reduction”
Posted in Global Warming, tagged cap and trade, carbon tax, climate change, Dallas Morning News, elizabeth souder, Energy, environment, fossil fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, public policy on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dallas Morning News journalist Elizabeth Souder shares the Six things economists wish journalists knew about greenhouse gas reduction on the DMN’ Energy and Environment Blog. They sound a lot like the 6 things EVERYONE should know about greenhouse gas reduction, so I thought I’d share them. Kudos to Elizabeth Souder, and be sure to keep [...]
Come Speak TONIGHT at CPS Public Hearing
Posted in Nuclear, tagged CPS, CPS Energy, Energia Mia, nuclear reactors, San Antonio, South Texas Project, STP on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight at 6 pm is the final CPS hearing regarding the proposed nuclear reactors. The trustees will vote at their next meeting, Oct. 5th, on whether to participate in the proposed two additional nuclear reactors and spend an additional $400 million. This could be the last chance for citizens to directly address CPS on this [...]
Suggested Reading: Greg Harman on STP
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Greg Harman, Mining, Nuclear, nukes, nukes means mines, SA Current, San Antonio, South Texas Project, Texas, Uranium on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re interested in the San Antonio South Texas Project nuclear issue and haven’t been reading Greg Harman’s work for the San Antonio Current, you are seriously missing out. His latest story is a cover feature titled “Nukes Mean Mines” and part of a life cycle analysis of the South Nuclear Texas Project. First things [...]
Oppose the Murkowski Amendment and Support the EPA’s Authority to Curb Global Warming
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged carbon dioxide emissions, clean air act, Clean Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Senator Lisa Murkowski on September 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has circulated a draft amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill—the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual spending bill—calling to prevent the Agency from regulating stationary sources of greenhouse gases, despite a mandate from the US Supreme Court two years ago to do just that. The amendment would ignore worldwide scientific consensus that indicates [...]
To Grandfather or Not to Grandfather? That is the Question.
Posted in Global Warming, tagged american clean energy and security act, clean air act, Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, grandfather, public citizen texas, Sierra Club, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas State-Wide Coal Plant Tour on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen Texas and the Sierra Club just closed out their first week on the Texas State-Wide Coal Plant Tour. After a quick break, the tour’s fight against grandfathering will continue next Monday, September 28 in College Station. So far, the media tour has brought awareness to communities in Waco, Dallas, and Abilene in regards to [...]
Join Public Citizen at the Renewable Energy Roundup!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Efficiency, energy districts, fredericksburg, net metering, public citizen texas, renewable energy, renewable roundup, SEED Coalition, smart meters, solar, wind on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Still not sure what to do this weekend, Sept 25 – 27th? Come on out to Fredericksburg and join Public Citizen Texas at the 10th annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair! Over the past 10 years, this community and family oriented Green Living Fair has grown to be the largest “green show” in [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Global Warming on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The fall is upon us, and so the Texas Progressive Alliance closes out another summer with some more hot blogging. Halliburton was fracking for Cabot and … Oh Oops! We spilled some! TWICE! Deadly Hydraulic Fracture Fluid! Ironically, industry just released part of their $80 million propaganda campaign asking people to submit “Eureka” moments. From [...]
Tell Texas Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson Not to Grandfather Coal Plants in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, American Clean Energy and Securities, Coal, coal plant, cornyn, Global Warming, grandfather, hutchinson, john, kay bailey hutchinson, Public Citizen, senator, Texas, tour on September 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In 1977 Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act that provided exemptions to existing coal plants, allowing them to ignore the new emissions standards any new plants would have to adhere to. It was thought these plants would simply age and be retired quickly, but because these plants suddenly became much cheaper to operate [...]
Texas Roll Beyond Coal Tour Headed Your Way
Posted in Coal, tagged clean air act, Coal Plant Permitting Process, coal tour, EPA, pollution, public citizen texas, Sierra Club, TCEQ on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week Public Citizen Texas and the Sierra Club are launching a statewide media tour of Texas coal plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently rejected key aspects of the air permitting plan of Texas’ regulatory agency — the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and called for proper enforcement of the Clean Air Act [...]
WATCH: San Antonio Clean Tech Forum- The Great Nuclear Debate
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Arjun Makhijani, CPS Energy, Craig Sererence, economics of nuclear, no to nuclear, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, nuclear reactors, nuclear waste, Patrick Moore, San Antonio, south texas nuclear project, STP on September 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Many of you have been clamoring for these videos of the clean tech forum that we attended on Wednesday, so here they are in streaming digital goodness. Outside the event we caught up with two of the panelists from the forum, specifically the ones opposed to San Antonio investing in the new nuclear expansion. First, [...]
San Antonio Clean Tech forum on San Antonio’s Nuclear Power Investment Decision
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Craig Sererence, Nuclear San Antonio Arjun Mahkijani, Patrick Moore on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now Cast San Antonio, a project of the Alamo Area Community Information System, will post video of the entire Clean Tech forum later on NOWCastSA.org #saenergy. Missed or couldn’t afford this event, then consider attending the free event hosted by Energía Mía at UTSA Downtown Campus at 7 pm with nuclear experts Craig Severance and Dr. [...]
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