Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections. In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affects every bit of its business with the TCEQ. New rules currently proposed by the [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hearing next Tuesday and comments can be submitted before March 12th
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Sunset, TCEQ, Water, tagged Hearing (law), pollution, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Tar Sands by Any Other Name
Posted in Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, Texas, TransCanada Corporation, white house on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post was reprinted from a press statement by Trevor Lovell in response to TransCanada’s announcement yesterday, February 27th regarding their plans to pursue the building of a pipeline from Cushing, OK to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast while pursuing a new application for the Keystone XL pipeline through the heartland of the US. Texans [...]
2012 Tornado Season: Fasten your seat belts boys, it might just be a bumpy ride.
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, Tornado on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out power and forced schools to close. [...]
A temporary victory for private property rights
Posted in Tarsands, tagged Eminent Domain, Julia Trigg Crawford, Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline, rallied in front of the Lamar County [...]
TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Despite Denial of Pipeline Permit
Posted in Tarsands, tagged debra medina, Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission, transcanada on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to bully landowners and condemn private property. Despite a presidential [...]
A plan to teach climate change skepticism in schools leaked
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Climate change denial on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting. When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were funding work like his in support [...]
Help us Protect Big Bend and the Guadalupe Mountains
Posted in Air Quality, tagged Big Bend National Park, clean air act, EPA, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Big Bend. The Guadalupe Mountains. Everything about them is iconic…everything but the air pollution that obscures the scenic viewscapes. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are increasingly under attack from air pollution known as haze from coal plants and refineries. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to reduce and eliminate this haze. Under [...]
INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACUATION ZONES, IMPROVE EMERGENCY PLANNING AROUND U.S. NUCLEAR REACTORS
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Fukushima, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Nuclear Regulatory Commission on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Thirty-seven clean energy groups submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors. If you would like to sign on as a co-petitioner, click here. Calling on the NRC to incorporate the real-world lessons [...]
Solar Reaches Major Employer Status in Austin, But for How Long?
Posted in Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, jobs, renewable energy, San Antonio, solar energy on February 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A survey done by Solar Austin at the beginning of 2012 shows there are at least 615 full-time solar energy jobs in Austin. These jobs include manufacturing, R&D, solar installation, financial and engineering consultants. Adding standard jobs multipliers the total direct and indirect employment supported by the Austin solar industry is 1,180 to 2,190 jobs. [...]
Even a few days of air pollution may trigger a heart attack or stroke
Posted in Air Quality, tagged air pollution, Environmental Protection Agency on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
According to an MSNBC article, even short-term exposure to air pollution — just a day or a week in some cases — may kick off a heart attack or stroke according to two new studies. The studies reveal that the risk of heart attack or stroke can jump after high-pollution days, especially for people who [...]
A little bit of rain, a little less drought?
Posted in Coal Plants, Global Warming, Nuclear Plants, Water, tagged drought, Texas on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
While only 23 percent of Texas remains under “exceptional” drought, 90% of the state is still under some level of drought in spite of the recent rains many parts of the state have experienced. But we can’t get cocky, as the U.S. seasonal drought outlook indicates most of Texas can expect the drought to persist [...]
The task force responsible for revamping U.S. nuclear waste policy has issued its final report.
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Fukushima, radioactive waste, Spent nuclear fuel, yucca mountain on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Among the recommendations for managing the current stockpile of spent nuclear fuel — approximately 65,000 tons of waste stored at about 75 operating and shut-down reactor sites around the country — is a plan to move the waste to temporary storage sites. Public Citizen rejects this plan. In the absence of a permanent and viable [...]
California nuclear plant may have leaked radioactive gas.
Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, tagged nuclear accident, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, radiation leak on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reporting that a “small” amount of radioactive gas may have leaked at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California. The San Onofre plant is on the Pacific Ocean coast near San Clemente north of San Diego. It consists of two units, No. 2 and No. 3. No. 1 was shut down [...]
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