In an article today by BRENT KENDALL And TENNILLE TRACY of the Washington post, they write that the Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether eight states and other plaintiffs can proceed with lawsuits that seek to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by utilities. Read more about the Supreme Court, including upcoming cases and details on the justices.
Archive for December, 2010
Supreme Court set to review CO2 suits
Posted in Global Warming on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan under scrutiny by the state auditor
Posted in Air Quality, tagged air pollution, TERP, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to the state auditor, Texas environmental regulators must recover or account for more than $62 million of a grant program, Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP), that’s aimed at improving air quality in some of the nation’s most polluted areas. TERP provides incentives to individuals, businesses and government agencies that replace old vehicles and industrial equipment with [...]
Texas vs EPA – the saga continues
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged clean air act, greenhouse gas, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a December 1, 2011 deadline for 13 states to develop plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, as the agency prepares to implement its major new rule January 2. A dozen of the states plan to submit emissions plans that do not account for GHG emissions, thereby triggering federal [...]
Is declining energy quality a root cause of the current recession?
Posted in Energy, tagged Economy of the United States, Electricity generation, Energy quality, Recession, University of Texas at Austin on December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a paper published this November in the journal Environmental Research Letters by energy expert Dr. Carey King of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, a center based at the University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, he concluded that an overlooked cause of the economic recession in the United States is [...]
Texas’ proposed rule to accept radioactive waste from many other states concerns Vermont
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, TCEQ, Toxics, Transportation, tagged New York Times, nuclear reactor waste, public citizen texas, radioactive waste, smitty, Texas, texas low level radioactive waste dump, vermont, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In an article by the New York Times that focuses on Vermont‘s concerns about losing space to waste from generators in other states, Matthew Wald writes: Waste disposal is so difficult, says the company, Waste Control Services, that power plants and other generating sources have reduced their volumes sharply. And Vermont and Texas together produce [...]
Texas and EPA: Going to battle over waste water permits now?
Posted in TCEQ, tagged Rick Perry, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, water permits, Water Quality on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publically demanded that Texas immediately take steps to reissue Clean Water Act permits to some 80 facilities that have been operating without the necessary paperwork. Not pleased with what they felt was a decision to, “ jump the gun prematurely with this notice,” the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [...]
ERCOT Launched the first phase of NODAL
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Public utilities commission, Texas on December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas ran its “one day-ahead market” under the new nodal configuration yesterday and say that, as of last night, the old zonal market has been laid to rest forever. Nodal is a market redesign and technology upgrade designed to enable location-specific pricing at more than 4,000 nodes instead of the [...]
“Las Brisas” Coal Plant Recommended for Denial, Again!
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, las brisas, state office of administrative hearings, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The Las Brisas coal (pet coke) plant proposed for Corpus Christi has had its air permit recommended for denial by the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) for the second time. The SOAH judges presiding over the case have stated in their “proposal for decision” that: At this time, we are unable to recommend that [...]
The EPA’s new Tailoring Rule
Posted in Global Warming, tagged clean air act, greenhouse gas, tailoring rule, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 100-page proposal, the “PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gases” for public review and feedback in mid-November, providing two weeks for responses by a Dec. 1 deadline. Finalized terms will be put in place by Jan. 2, 2011, in accordance with an implementing “Tailoring Rule” to guide [...]
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