The November/December edition of Public Citizen News, a bi-monthly newsletter distributed to Public Citizen members, featured this article on our statewide “Roll Beyond Coal” Tour. Since not all of you out there get the newsletter, I thought I’d share: ‘Roll Beyond Coal’ Tours Texas By Geena Wardaki It’s not often that you lug a 20-foot-tall [...]
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Recap: Roll Beyond Coal Tour
Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Austin, bay city, clean air act, clean economy coalition, coal block, coal plant, college station, corpus christi, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal climate change legislation, flex permits, grandfathering, grassroots, H.R. 2454, houston, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, lone star chapter, Multi-County Coalition, no coal coalition, public citizen texas, roll beyond coal, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, T.P.O.W.E.R., TCEQ, Texans Protecting Our Water Environment and Resources, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Waco on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
$18.2 Billion! Amores Nucleares: San Antonio Nuclear Expansion Soap Opera Update
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Nuclear, Public Citizen, Arjun Makhijani, San Antonio, CPS Energy, South Texas Project, SEED Coalition, Nuke Free Texas, san antonio express news, clarence johnson, transparency, nuclear expansion, mark cooper, Energia Mia, craig severance, amores nucleares, soap opera on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The San Antonio Nuclear Expansion Soap Opera plot thickens. Today’s update brings the shocking news that South Texas Project Reactors 3 & 4 could actually cost, not $13 Billion, not even $17 Billion… but $18.2 Billion! With all the trouble CPS has gotten into recently regarding transparency (a gentle term we’re using that translates roughly [...]
Green-up Your Life! Make change happen
Posted in Global Warming, tagged cap and trade, change, climate change, green, greensboro, individual, politics, president obama, responsibility, Waxman-Markey bill on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Kirsten Bokenkamp During his campaign, President Obama said “change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” As individuals, we need to internalize this, and act on it. This is the last blog [...]
60 Seconds to Save the Earth
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged acid rain, Bottled Water, carbon dioxide emissions, Citizen :60, Coal Plants, cotton, dallas, deadzones, energy efficient light bulbs, environment, EPA, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, light, methane, organic clothing, organic food, Power, public citizen texas, recycle, renewable energy, reuse, synthetic fertilizers, water conservation on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sixty seconds doesn’t seem like a lot of time; however, there are lots of things that can be done in sixty seconds or less. For instance, an average adult can type 38 to 40 words and blink between ten and 30 times every sixty seconds (sometimes simultaneously). Furthermore, an elite distance runner can run about [...]
Green-up Your Life! Holiday Edition
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Christmas, eat less meat, Energy Efficiency, environment, food, gift, green, holiday lights, holiday meal, holiday travel, holidays, new year's resolution, organic, oxfam, presents on December 17, 2009 | 10 Comments »
By Kirsten Bokenkamp Happy Holidays! Just saying those words is enough to evoke joyful images of families gathered in the kitchen preparing a succulent holiday meal to be enjoyed together, or excited and wide-eyed children opening gifts next to a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. When I close my eyes, I can almost taste the cinnamon-spiced [...]
Another Texas Wind Project Up and Running
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Clean Energy, ercot, green jobs, north american wind power, NRG, Texas, wind power on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to San Angelo, Texas, where a new 150 MW wind farm is up, spinning, and on with commercial operations. According to North American Wind Power, The project’s 100 General Electric 1.5 MW turbine generators are expected to generate more than 525,000 MWh of wind energy per year, which will be sold into the ERCOT [...]
Jim Boston: Living in the West with Tenaska
Posted in Coal, tagged abilene reporter news, coal plant, jim boston, roscoe, sweetwater, tenaska, west texas on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m very impressed with this op-ed from Jim Boston, which refers to the Tenaska coal plant proposed near Sweetwater, Texas. It was originally published Monday, December 13th in the Abilene Reporter News. Why live in West Texas when it is somewhat a hostile environment? Faced with frequent droughts, sandstorms, hail, constant wind, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, scorpions, [...]
Copen-update
Posted in Global Warming, tagged austin to copenhagen, citizen energy, climate voice, fossil of the day awards, grist, Public Citizen, tck tck tck, tyson slocum, wonk room on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Its already getting tough to keep tabs on everything happening in Copenhagen, so for now I’ll just share what I’ve been reading. Here’s today’s Copen-digest: Grist, as always, is an invaluable resource (and amusing to boot). Keep an eye on there often-updated series, Grist in Copenhagen: How føcked are we? The Wonk Room is also [...]
TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, army corps of engineers, Carbon Dioxide, citizen sarah, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, copenhagen, denmark, environmental integrity project, eva hernandez, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, maximum achievable control technology, mercury, nox, NRG, nrg limestone, ozone, particulate matter, paul rolke, public citizen texas, robertson county our land our lives, robertson couny, ryan rittenhouse, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, smog, soah, sox, state office of administrative hearings, sunset commission, sunset review, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a third smokestack) is painful. At the very moment that leaders from around the world are meeting to come to an international agreement to [...]
Obama going to Copenhagen with 17% reduction goal. Why not 35%?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 17% reduction goal, 35% reduction goal, climate change, cop15, copenhagen, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, ipcc, obama on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As of today, all four of the largest greenhouse gas polluters (China, the US, the EU, and India — no, not Texas) have announced the greenhouse gas reduction goals they want to pursue at the Copenhagen climate talks (COP-15) this week in Denmark. Here’s the rundown: EU: 20% cut in emissions relative to 1990 levels [...]
Copenhagen Negotiations begin today!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged citizen sarah, climate change, climate justice, cop15, copenhagen, daily texan, Global Warming, San Antonio, southwest workers union on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The international climate negotiations in Copenhagen begin today, and will continue until December 18th. No time for a full reckoning now of what this means in the big picture, what’s at stake, and what to expect — but since others have done a great job already, at the moment there’s no need to. Plus, there [...]
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