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Industry Experts Confirm Carbon Capture and Sequestration A Pipe Dream

Posted in Global Warming, tagged carbon capture, CCS, climate change, Coal, deep saline aquifer, Economides, enhanced oil recovery, Global Warming, industry, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Michael Economides, pipe dream, Power, report, sequestration, Texas A & M University, University of Houston on March 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is the fossil fuel industry’s much-touted cure-all for our global warming woes. This theoretical solution to global warming is to pump all our industrial releases of CO2 underground, cross our fingers, and hope really, really hard that it will stay there – literally sweeping the problem under the proverbial rug. [...]

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North Texas Public Hearing on Ozone Pollution — Have Your Voice Be Heard!

Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged al armendariz, arlington, clean air act, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, governor perry, mayor cluck, north texas, ozone, patrick cox, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Support the EPA’s proposal for a stricter ozone pollution standard Join us for an important public hearing at Arlington City Hall, 101 W. Abram St, Arlington, TX. For more info check out http://www.cleanairtexas.org Texas has the potential to be at the forefront of the green economy and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed new ozone [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asian american action fund, Barnett shale, bay area houston, big gas, bluedaze, democrats, denton county, eye on williamson, flower mound, gas drilling, harris country, left of college station, methane plumes, perry, primary elections, republican, senator bunning, Senator Cornyn, state board of education, Texas, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, txsharon, white on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance would like to thank the Academy by presenting it with this week’s roundup. TXsharon went undercover this week to Map Methane plumes in the Barnett Shale: “Stealth” measurements contradict Shale Gas industry safe air claims, new technology shows. Big Gas is so BUSTED! And it’s all reported on Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM [...]

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