The TCEQ ruled today on the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas pet-coke plant in Corpus Christi. The good news is they didn’t grant the permit (yet), instead they remanded the permit back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings on a number of issues. However, they refused to acknowledge some of the most [...]
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TCEQ Continues to Fail the People of Texas
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged Coal, corpus christi, fail, hearing, judge, judges, las brisas, meeting, pet-coke, Petcoke, petroleum, pollution, Public Citizen, remand, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, Texas on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Want a Public Meeting on EPA Coal Ash Waste Rules – TAKE ACTION NOW
Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash, EPA, public hearing on June 30, 2010 |
Requests for a public meeting should be submitted to EPA’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery by July 21, 2010. For a sample request letter and where to send it, click here.
EPA disapproves Texas “flex permitting” program at TCEQ- new programs must follow Clean Air Act, transparency standards
Posted in Energy, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged ACT, asthma, clean air act, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, flex permits, TCEQ, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The EPA announced today that Texas’s much-discussed and derided flex permitting program does not follow the federal Clean Air Act (big surprise </sarcasm>). This was an action that began when the EPA under George W. Bush called into question the transparency and efficacy of the program which allows big polluters to skirt the federal Clean [...]
Dirtiest Oil in the World to be Refined in Texas?
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Transportation, tagged canada, deis, draft environmental impact statement, Global Warming, hearings, meeting, oil, pipeline, state department, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas on June 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
TransCanada, a pipeline company out of Canada, wants to build a pipeline to bring the dirtiest kind of oil in the world from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Houston and Beaumont. This oil is many times dirtier than conventional crude and allowing Houston area refineries to process it would increase air [...]
Want an EPA Public Hearing on Coal Ash Waste?
Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash waste, EPA, Public Hearings on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to set federal safeguards for millions of tons of dangerous coal ash waste currently being stored in dry dumps and waste ponds. You can help set EPA on a straight course towards the first ever strong, federally enforceable safeguards for coal ash. And judging from the current proposal, it seems like the EPA [...]
GasLand: A Must Watch Documentary
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, solar, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, documentary, drinking water, faucet on fire, fracking, gasland, HBO, HBO Documentaries, josh fox, Larry King, Larry King Live, natural gas drilling, oil and gas wells, pipe explosion, rig explosion, T. Boone Pickens, water, water on fire, Water Pollution, Water Quality on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, Larry King interviewed T. Boone Pickens and if you were watching it, you heard him condemn the spill and the US dependence on oil then he raved about natural gas and how safe it is to drill for it. Pickens is not the first. Many have claimed that natural gas is [...]
90 Days to Tell the EPA We Want Strong Safeguards on Coal Ash
Posted in Global Warming on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
EPA offers two options for coal ash: one good, one very, very bad
Three Finalists for Austin Energy GM Announced!
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, public citizen texas, Texas on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the Austin Business Journal: The finalists include Ronald Davis, Larry Weis and David Wright. Ronald Davis (Burbank, Calif.) Davis has worked 30 years in the electric industry and has led Burbank Water and Power for the last 12 years. Burbank Water and Power is a municipal utility in urban Southern California with a 2009 [...]
Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting controversy
Posted in Good Government, Sunset, tagged emissions, EPA, glenn shankle, Mark Vickery, Oak Grove, perry, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas, waste control specialists, WCS on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Region 6 Administrator, Al [...]
TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East Texas
Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Houston refinary., keystone xl, oklahoma-texas pipeline, tar sand, tar sand pipeline, transcanada, tx pipelines on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the line which [...]
NRC ACCEPTS APPLICATION FOR EARLY SITE PERMIT AT VICTORIA COUNTY SITE IN TEXAS
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Exelon, NRC, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, tx, Victoria on June 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review the Exelon Nuclear Texas Holdings Early Site Permit (ESP) application for the Victoria County site near Victoria, Texas. The application and associated information were initially submitted on March 25 and is available, minus proprietary and security-related details, on the NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/esp/victoria.html. Exelon’s application seeks approval [...]
HEARING ON NUKE DUMP NOW SET FOR SATURDAY
Posted in Nuclear, TCEQ, tagged Nuclear, nuclear waste, waste on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At a time when lax regulatory oversight has contributed to such catastrophic problems for our nation as the financial crisis and the BP oil spill, Texas may be in the process of setting itself up for a fiscally disastrous and environmentally catastrophic future – all because of a vote by an appointed committee taking place [...]
White Stallion Town Hall Meeting
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged Carbon Dioxide, Coal, coal plant, Global Warming, Public Citizen on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This footage is of the town hall event that was held in Bay City in April. Though invited, White Stallion representatives refused to show up to answer questions from the public. Some Bay City officials, including Mr. Owen Bludau of the Matagorda Economic Development Corporation and Judge Nate McDonald did attend to voice their positions [...]
EPA Hearing in Dallas on New Ozone Standard
Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged clean air, Clean Energy, climate change, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Global Warming, ozone on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Video footage of a public meeting back in March for the Dallas, TX region. EPA has proposed a new NOx attainment standard, and this meeting was held during the comment period. Though an official EPA meeting had been held in Houston, there was no official meeting for Dallas (where Region 6 offices of EPA are [...]
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