In the 2011 ozone season, North Texas pushed ahead of Houston in the battle for the worst air quality in the state. Both metro areas have significant pollution problems, and both continue to exceed federal ozone limits. Dallas-Fort Worth now has the distinction of beating the Bayou City as the former longtime state champ, and [...]
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North Texas beats Houston for worst air quality in the State
Posted in Air Quality, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Dallas-Fort Worth, houston, ozone, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Public Citizen, Sierra Club and SEED Coalition Fear Luminant Will Simply Run Units Next Summer Without Cleaning Up the Air Emissions
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged air pollution, electric reliability council of texas, Luminant, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Public Citizen, Sierra Club and SEED Coalition are calling on Luminant to come clean and retire, rather than idle, the old dirty coal plant, Monticello 1 and 2. After receiving notice that Luminant Generation Company, LLC, has filed a Notification of Suspension of Operations for Monticello Units 1 and 2 with the Electric Reliability Council [...]
Tar Sands Cronyism
Posted in Air Quality, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, New York Times, state department on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a New York Times op-ed by Bill McKibbens, he talks about the cronyism of the TransCanada tar sands play. He makes reference to e-mails, made available by the environmental group Friends of the Earth, that show the State Department working with lobbyists to advance the interests of TransCanada, the company trying to build the [...]
Texas Politics weigh in on the cross state pollution rule once again
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The States Attorney general is leaping into the environmental fray once again with a filing with the federal appeals court to review the new EPA regulations while the Texas house state affairs hold hearings today, but Governors Perry’s attorney and chief is taking it one step farther filing against four different rules according to the [...]
Is the EPA Trying to Destroy Rick Perry’s Texas?
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, tagged clean air, csapr, destroy, EPA, obama, president, Rick Perry, Texas on September 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this month Rick Perry denied the reality of climate change at a presidential debate. This week Governor “Good-Hair” has continued his crusade of fact fabrication and blamed the loss of 500 Texas jobs on the EPA and its new regulations (called the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule or CSAPR). This accusation came just after TXU/Luminant, [...]
TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT), and thanks to the efforts of [...]
A Plethora of Candidates for PUC Commissioner – Who would you pick?
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, tagged texas public utility commission on August 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So far, there are nine candidates for the PUC Commission position that was vacated by PUC Chair, Barry Smitherman, when he resigned after being appointed by Governor Perry to the Texas Railroad Commission. Included in the slate of candidates are attorneys, elected officials, and civil engineer. The Public Utility Commission of Texas regulates the [...]
The Public Needs Protection From Fracking Dangers
Posted in Air Quality, Water, tagged hydraulic fracturing, Public Citizen, safe drinking water act, united states department of energy on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen today urged a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) task force to prioritize the safety of water resources at contamination risk from hydraulic fracturing. Among the solutions Public Citizen proposed is repeal of the various exemptions the natural gas industry has received from federal environmental laws; the denial of drilling companies’ “proprietary” right to [...]
Deregulation has put Texas energy security at risk.
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Texas Legislature, tagged deregulation, Energy, Public utilities commission, Rolling blackout, solar power, Texas, wind power on August 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The PUC wants to have a meeting at the end of August to try to figure out how to fix Texas’s experiment of a deregulated generation market, as we look like we are going to run out of energy during what could be ever increasing hot summers. It seems the current market based behavior doesn’t [...]
All the world’s a “fracking” stage, and all the men and women merely players
Posted in Air Quality, tagged air pollution, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Seems like everyone is jumping onto the “Fracking” bandwagon. In an earlier blog we talked about the US Department of Energy’s entrance into the “Fracking” fray with Secretary Steven Chu appointing an Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas, led by former CIA director John Deutch, who plan to have recommendations on the table in [...]
DOE weighing in on the fracking debate
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, fracking, united states department of energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu may play a role in sorting out the entangled mess of misinformation and spin about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. U.S. gas producers are looking to ramp up industrialization in rural areas outside of some of the nation’s largest cities. Secretary Chu has indicated that the White [...]
Coal ash contaminates groundwater at some TVA power plants
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged coal ash, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Office of Inspector General found that the groundwater at some coal ash sites is contaminated with arsenic and other toxic pollutants and is a health hazard. Levels at the Gallatin plant site in Sumner County and at the Cumberland site, 50 miles northwest of Nashville, are at [...]
LIGHTS, CAMERA, HELP – a cause-driven film festival in Austin featuring “On Coal River”
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged austin texas, Film, Film festival, massey energy on July 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lights. Camera. Help is a nonprofit film festival dedicated entirely to nonprofit and cause-driven films. This 3-day event held in Austin Texas, July 28th through July 30th, gives films-for-a-cause the attention they deserve by putting them up on the big screen in a theater setting. One of the films, On Coal River, showing at Lights. [...]
Heat wave and poor air quality, a deadly combination
Posted in Air Quality, tagged code red air quality, heat wave on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Scorching temperatures continue to bake half the country, as a massive heat wave that has killed at least 22 people nationwide this week leaves twenty-nine states still under a heat advisory. Meteorologists are also warning folks in numerous cities in the northeast that they are under a code red for air quality — designated as [...]
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