The past several days have been yet another reminder that the hubris of modern engineering can be brought low by the extreme power of mother nature. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it was monitoring the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant near Athens in north Alabama, after it lost offsite power Wednesday night due to the [...]
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Engineering vs Mother Nature
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Alabama, Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Surry Nuclear Power Plant, Tornado on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pray for rain, pray for no radioactive waste transport accidents
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged radioactive waste, Rick Perry, Texas, Volunteer fire department, waste control specialists, Wildfire on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In spite of, Governor Rick Perry’s designation of this past Easter weekend as official days of prayer for rain, Texas is expected to break its yearly record for the number of acres burned by wildfires, with officials warning that today through Wednesday would see a high risk of fresh blazes. 2006 set the previous record of [...]
Texas Blog News Roundup Apr 25, 2011
Posted in News Roundup on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance thinks it’s never too early to plan your Sine Die Day activities as it brings you this week’s roundup. The long range plan to kill public education is reaching the end game. Over at TexasKaos lightseeker talks about seeing one of the (unintentional) moving parts at a public lecture given by [...]
WCS and Texas Wildfires
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged andrews county, radioactive waste, Texas wildfires, WCS on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As fires rage throughout Texas, we should remember that besides brush, farm land and homes, wildfires are a danger to many industrial sites. According to today’s Texas Forest Service incident management situation report, a wildfire designated the Frying Pan Ranch fire in Andrews Co. has been contained, but not before scorching 80,907 acres. While a [...]
Nuclear Power: Poll shows a spike in U.S. opposition after Fukushima
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, Nuclear Power, Three Mile Island accident on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent ABC News-Washington Post poll shows Americans oppose building more nuclear power plants in the United States, by a margin of 2-1. This is an 11-point increase in opposition, up from a few years ago. In the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear plant crisis, 64 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll now oppose new nuclear plant [...]
Public Citizen, SEED Coalition and We Texans, rally against WCS Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Radioactive Waste on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition and We Texans are traveling around the state to get the word out to folks in Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas against proposed bills that would allow states to ship nuclear waste to a West Texas low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. The facility in Andrews County is [...]
$1.5 BILLION CONTRIBUTED TO TEXAS ECONOMY THROUGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS
Posted in Efficiency, tagged Efficient energy use, Energy, energy conservation on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The following contribution on a new Angelou Economics report showing positive economic impact to the state since 2009. is from Tod Wickersham of Businesses for an Energy Efficient Texas coalition (BEET). Texas’ energy efficiency programs have saved the state’s residents, schools and businesses money on their electric bills for years. However, a new study by noted [...]
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Sunset Bill up in the House tomorrow
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged clean air act, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
HB 2694, the sunset bill for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will be heard on the house floor tomorrow and several dozen amendments have be prefiled. Of concern to any of you who have opposed a permit being granted is Representative Warren Chisum’s (R-Pampa) proposed floor amendment to HB 2694 which would completely undercut the Contested [...]
Public Citizen asks to depose Chairman and former Executive Director of the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission
Posted in Global Warming on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the opening salvo of a long-anticipated legal battle over a rule that would leave Texas open to radioactive waste from all over the country traveling along our highways to a West Texas dumpsite, Public Citizen’s Texas office filed a petition in Travis County District Court on Thursday. The petition alleges many significant flaws in the process by which these rules were [...]
Public Citizen joins Fracking Activists in press conference
Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, TCEQ, tagged fracking on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen was lucky enough to have been invited to the release of the new study Flowback: How Natural Gas Drilling in Texas Threatens Public Health and Safety. We had to split the press conference into three different pieces to get them uploaded, but here we get started with Sharon Wilson and State Rep. Lon [...]
Radioactive Waste Could Be Rumbling Through Your Town Unless State Legislators Close Loopholes in SB 1504
Posted in Global Warming on April 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With the passage of SB 1504 in the Texas Senate, radioactive waste could soon be barreling down Texas highways and through our neighborhoods by way of Interstate 10 through Houston, San Antonio and El Paso; I-20 and I-30 though Dallas and Forth Worth, Midland and Odessa ; and I-27 though Lubbock and Amarillo. The greatest [...]
Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, fighting goliath, robert redford on April 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Robert Redford, who has been a major figure in film in this country since the 60s (as an actor, director, and producer), is once again in the limelight for the release of his new film The Conspirator. But as much of note in Mr. Redford’s life is his lifelong commitment to positive social and environmental [...]
Weekly Bill Update from ACT
Posted in Global Warming on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We will be posting the weekly update provided to us by the Alliance for Clean Texas throughout the legislative session. Now that April’s in full swing, there’s never a dull moment for environmental advocacy at the Capitol. I want to tell you where we are on several of ACT’s priority bills this week. The TCEQ Sunset [...]
Rolling Blackouts – NEVER AGAIN! – well at least not for another 21 years
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Electric power, Energy, Rolling blackout, Texas on April 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An unusual weather event and rolling blackouts – what lessons were learned? Apparently none. A report from the Public Utility Commission of Texas is clear in its analysis of what went wrong and what needed to be done to prevent another such event: The winter freeze greatly strained the ability of the Texas electric utilities [...]
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