Tell them that the testimony being given is based upon false premises and they should not vote for HR 2273 when the Committee hearing resumes at 3 pm EST. According to the National Academy of Science (NAS) Coal Combustion Residues or waste (CCR’s) contain numerous hazardous metals and substances with hazardous characteristics including arsenic, lead, [...]
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Coal Ash Waste – Call the House Committee now
Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash waste, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are we getting “fracked”?
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, hydraulic fracturing, natural gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What happens when you let Big Business regulate itself? – You get fracked. Hydraulic fracturing — also known as fracking — is a controversial method of natural gas extraction that involves injecting a toxic chemical sludge into the surface of the earth until it rips open. And it’s a case study in the dangers of [...]
Heat and drought; what’s a state to do?
Posted in Climate Change, Coal Plants, Nuclear Plants, Water, tagged drought, National Climatic Data Center, temperature, Texas on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve blogged numerous times about the persistent heat and drought plaguing the Southern Plains (particularly Texas) this year. Much of Texas is off a June that ranks among the top five hottest in history. According to the National Climatic Data Center, Texas had their hottest June on record and of the six record hottest June [...]
Perry running for President as a climate change denier
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged climate change, Global Warming, Rick Perry on July 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
An unnamed Republican campaign veteran told the Washington Post that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President, though the official word from the Perry camp is still a definite maybe, stating that Mr. Perry has surveyed the field and decided to get in the race later this summer. The thinking from republican sources is [...]
And the sun slowly sets on the Solar RPS at the Texas PUC
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, renewable portfolio standard, Texas, texas public utility commission on July 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today was the last day for the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) to pass the 500 Mw non-wind RPS rule. After 6 years they failed to implement a provision by passed by the legislature setting aside a portion of the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard for renewable technologies other than wind (like solar, geothermal, or storage). Citing cost concerns, the PUC [...]
Texas Environmental Community Welcomes EPA Cross State Air Pollution Rule
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, public citizen texas, sustainable energy, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New EPA Safeguard will Improve Health & Lives of Millions of Americans Earlier today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new Cross State Air Pollution Rule designed to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. The new protections will reduce power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) [...]
A dream deferred
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, renewable, solar power, Texas on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Southwestern U.S. has dominated the world of utility-scale solar projects over the past few years, with news of deals being signed for solar-power plants as large as 1 gigawatt or more. But now the Southeastern U.S. looks like it will soon be home to one of the world’s largest solar projects, a 400-megawatt photovoltaic [...]
The fairy tale of Texas politics
Posted in Good Government, tagged Austin American-Statesman, David Simpson, public citizen texas, Texas on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In an Austin American-Statesman editorial that ran last Saturday, July 2nd, the paper talked quite candidly about the lack of a level playing field in the Texas capital as pointed out by conservative East Texas republican freshman Representative David Simpson and liberal Austin-based Public Citizen director, Tom “Smitty” Smith. The odd man from East Texas Austin [...]
Tepco, wouldn’t want to be you
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged japan, Nuclear Power, Texas, Tokyo Electric Power Company, water on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In their ongoing effort to accomplish a cold shutdown by January, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the beleaguered operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant said it had resumed the use of recycled water to cool the reactor cores this weekend, a week after its first attempt was suspended due to leaks that developed [...]
Obscure Japanese prefecture governor could decide the fate of nuclear power for his country
Posted in Nuclear, tagged japan, Nuclear, Nuclear Power on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that the fate for nuclear power in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, could be decided by a local governor of an obscure prefecture of about 850,000 residents on the southernmost main island of Kyushu. Governor Yasushi Furukawa of Saga Prefecture, must decide in coming days whether to support a request by Prime [...]
Happy 4th of July, with or without fireworks
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged drought, Independence Day (United States), Texas on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No oohs and aahs this Independence Day holiday in many Texas communities as months of severe drought have led to restrictions on fireworks across much of the state. Not only are dozens of counties imposing restrictions on small pyrotechnics like firecrackers and bottle rockets, (even sparklers in some places), but cities like Austin, San Antonio, [...]
The US could set a new record for billion $ weather disasters in 2011
Posted in Global Warming, tagged National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, weather, weather disaster on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we’ve already seen eight billion-dollar weather disasters since January! Before 2011, the most billion-dollar weather disasters recorded in one full year (since 1980) is nine in 2008. This was from a wide variety of weather events including tornadoes, floods, drought, wildfires and three hurricanes. With half the [...]
Japan’s nuclear corporate & regulatory culture not so different from ours
Posted in Global Warming, tagged japan, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Tokyo Electric Power Company on July 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Bashing Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), has become a regular habit in Japan over the past three months. While Tepco managers certainly bungled the response to the crisis at the company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Tepco wasn’t operating in a vacuum. Indications are that failures of corporate governance policies and [...]
Nowhere to run
Posted in Global Warming, tagged evacuation, Nuclear, nuclear accident, Nuclear Power on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a series of investigative stories, the Associated Press (AP) has been reporting on the state of the US nuclear industry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. In this recent report, the AP found that as America’s nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have become far more crowded [...]
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