Dr. Al Armendariz, a former SMU professor, made his first appearance before a state legislative committee in his new role as Regional 6 Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the House Environmental Regulation Committee hearing was taken up with Armendariz’s testimony with the bulk of the discussion about EPA’s decision earlier this year to disallow the state’s [...]
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Al Armendariz testifies in front of House Environmental Regulation Committee
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged Air Quaility, Armendariz, environmental regulation, EPA, flex permits, Texas on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Perry Banks on Texas Politics through Appointments
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged appointments in Texas, bill white, parry patronage, PUC, Rick Perry, rick perry campaign, TCEQ, texans for public justice on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Governor Perry has raised over $17 million in political donations from people he gave jobs to– in the government! Call it cronyism, call it kickbacks– whatever it is, it’s unethical and should be erased from our political sphere and replaced with public financing for public office.
TCEQ Proves Incompetent Once Again, Approves White Stallion Coal Plant
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, tagged approves, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Electricity generation, Energy, matagorda county, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Public Citizen, regulate, regulation, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, white stallion on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continued their decades-long campaign of ineptitude and inadequacy as they approved the air quality permit for the White Stallion Coal Plant proposed for Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast. Their ruling was unanimous despite the fact that the administrative law judges, who spent weeks presiding over [...]
Bill White Talks Solar, Clean Energy Jobs
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged bill white, renewable energy, Rick Perry, solar, solar energy, wind power on September 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Finally, energy is now moving to the center of the debate in the governor race. Bill White announced yesterday his energy plan. For a while, the democratic candidate’s position on energy was a bit blurry but yesterday White set the record straight. He is in for green energy. While the current governor has wasted state resources on [...]
Pedernales Board Votes for More Transparency
Posted in Consumers, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Larry Landaker, pec, PEC meeting, PEC strategic meeting, pedernales electric cooperative, Ross Fischer on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pedernales Electric Cooperative. The name used to be synonymous with closed-door meetings and conjured up images of a good ol’ boys club and the smoke-filled room, where the public was shut out of the decision-making process. Today Pedernales Electric Co-op (PEC) board members voted for a proposed strategic meeting in October to be open. They [...]
Tar Sands Oil’s Devastating Legacy
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged canada, climate change, dirty, Energy, Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, oil, Oil sands, Oklahoma, pipeline, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas, transcanada on September 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Tar sands oil makes conventional oil look clean by comparison, as it produces 3.2-4.5 times more the carbon footprint than conventional fuel. If that weren’t bad enough cleaner fuels such as natural gas, which otherwise might be used to generate electricity, are wasted in the process of creating more dirty energy from tar sands. Tar [...]
An idyllic vacation hotspot doomed by global warming
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Current sea level rise, Global Warming, indian ocean, Maldives, sea level rise on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In an article by Concierge.com, a travel focused online publication, they selected seven beach destinations around the world in danger of disappearing forever due to forces such as erosion, pollution, rising sea levels, reckless overdevelopment, and sand mining, with a caution that there are hundreds more. If we don’t curb global warming, insist on sustainable [...]
EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible Permits Program
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged Air Quality, clean air act, Federal Government, federal register, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that the EPA started questioning [...]
Smitty’s statement on former PEC/AE GM Juan Garza’s new nuclear job
Posted in Co-op Reform, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Renewables, tagged Austin Energy, Juan Garza, nrg energy, South Texas Project, Tom "Smitty" Smith on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith: We are shocked to hear the news that former Austin Energy and Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Juan Garza has taken a job promoting nuclear power with New Jersey-based NRG Energy. While Garza rightfully acknowledges the danger climate change poses to Texas, nuclear power’s life cycle carbon footprint, exorbitant cost [...]
ACTION ALERT- Call in, stop Las Brisas
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Action alert, Air Quality, coal plant, Federal Clean Air Act, public citizen texas, Sierra Club, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve got an Action Alert! This week, hundreds of people from Corpus Christi and across Texas will be calling the Environmental Protection Agency to ask them to ensure that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is complying with the Federal Clean Air Act. To protect our air, our water, our earth, and our health, we [...]
Austin Energy and the EGRSO: EUC Chairman Schmandt weighs in
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged austin city council, Austin Energy, EGRSO, electric utility commission, facebook, Friday Night Lights, heliovolt, Home Depot, LegalZoom, phillip schmandt on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For those in Austin who don’t know, the EGRSO (the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office… I had to look it up too) gets a substantial portion of its funding from the municipally-owned utility Austin Energy. What does this office do? From its city website: [The EGRSO] implements the City of Austin Economic Development Policy [...]
Local, Small Businesses Benefit from Stimulus
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged doe, economy, green economy, green jobs, jobs, Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, solar energy, SOLAR PANEL, stimulus, TEXAS STIMULUS FUNDS on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans keep rejecting the success of the stimulus package but that is nothing new, being opposed is just a Republican thing to do nowadays. President Obama said yesterday that even if he said the sky is blue, Republicans would disagree. Despite all that, in Texas, the stimulus seems to serve its purpose just fine, especially [...]
Another Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
Posted in Energy, tagged bp, Energy, Enron, gulf of mexico, Mariner, Mariner Energy, oil platform explosion on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following blog was posted on Public Citizen’s energy blog by Tyson Slocum Another Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Here’s what we know: On the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, an oil and gas rig owned by Mariner Energy, Inc., operating in about 340 feet of water on the continental shelf experienced an explosion and subsequently [...]
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