In a three part story, KHOU-TV reports on a four-month investigation into radioactive contaminants in the Houston area drinking water. Revelations that came to light shows hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region are providing their customers with drinking water that contains radioactive contaminants that raise health risks, according to state lab results [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Radiation in Houston’s Tap Water Compounded by TCEQ ‘lowballing’ radiation scores in drinking water throughout Texas
Posted in Radiation, tagged houston, Radiation, TCEQ, Water Quality on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Come tonight to the town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset in Austin
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Austin town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset review – Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of Texas campus. (This auditorium is located in the basement level of Sid Richardson Hall.) All are invited to attend these town [...]
Website offers some details about fracking chemicals: A public education effort or a slick PR campaign to take pressure off the natural gas industry?
Posted in Air Quality, tagged Chemical substance, drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Halliburton unveiled a new website that offers some details about the mix of chemicals used in a natural gas drilling technique following the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) decision last week to subpoena Halliburton to force the company to turn over information about the chemicals it produces for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Halliburton has said [...]
Abilene Town Hall on TCEQ Sunset, November 18th
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged abilene, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Abilene, Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Abilene town hall will take place Thursday, November 18th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unity Church of Christianity. All are invited to attend these town halls [...]
Lubbock Town Hall Meeting on TCEQ Sunset
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged lubbock, Lubbock Texas, TCEQ, texas tech university, Town Hall Meeting on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Lubbock town hall will take place Friday, November 19th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Texas Tech School of Law. All are invited to attend these town halls [...]
Houston Redistricting Hearing
Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged Government, houston, redistricting, Texas Legislature, tx on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicial officers or of governing bodies or representatives of political subdivisions or [...]
A SIMMERING WATER WAR – special from Jim Hightower
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, green jobs, Nuclear, tagged Coal, colorado river, Entergy, Jim Hightower, Nuclear Power, Power Plants Suck, Power station, public citizen texas, Texas, water on November 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Originally posted at jimhightower.com Here in my home state of Texas, we’re suffering from withdrawal pains. This is not caused by our addiction to alcohol or drugs – but to plain water. And to make our pain worse, it’s not the people of Texas who are hooked on a destructive water habit – it’s the [...]
EPA issues subpoena after Halliburton refuses to disclose fracking details
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged dfw, fracking, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing, United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The EPA said it issued the subpoena after Texas-based Halliburton refused to voluntarily disclose the a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice that has been at the center of a controversy in the DFW area. Halliburton was the only one of nine major energy companies [...]
Austin Town Hall Meeting on the TCEQ Sunset
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Austin town hall will take place Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of [...]
CREZ Project Wins Unanimous Approval at PUC hearing
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged CREZ, hearing, texas public utility commission on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved a controversial project to construct new power lines in the counties in the area around Hillsboro over the objections of numerous landowners from the area and several local elected officials. The 3-0 vote came late yesterday afternoon after testimony from people likely to be affected by the $170 million project [...]
Perry’s deputy budget chief named new PUC executive director
Posted in Energy, tagged Brian Lloyd, PUC, Texas on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Public Utility Commission (PUC) has named one of Gov. Rick Perry’s chief energy advisers to take over as executive director of the agency that oversees the much of the electric industry in the state as well as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Brian Lloyd, spent 10 years at PUC before joining governor’s office where [...]
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