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 [...]
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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 »
Call your Senator and ask them to not block CSAPR!
Posted in Coal, tagged air pollution, csapr, Environmental Protection Agency on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Senate is set to take a vote to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules affecting downwind communities. This single vote – tomorrow at noon – will be an up or down vote in the U.S. Senate and will dramatically affect the EPA’s work on clean air issues from stationary sources like coal plants. S.J. [...]
NPR reports on how energy and environmental issues affect you
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Nuclear, Texas Legislature, Water on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
StateImpact is a collaboration among NPR and local public radio stations in eight pilot states to examine issues of local importance. The project seeks to inform and engage communities with broadcast and online news about how state government decisions affect people’s lives. In Texas, a collaboration between local public radio stations KUT Austin, KUHF Houston and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
New EPA standards for coal plant emissions already working to clear our skies
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, energy future holdings, Luminant, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Here’s some great news! With EPA tightening the standards for coal plant emissions, Energy Future Holdings, the parent company of Luminant (formerly TXU) and the major electric power provider for much of North and West Texas, is considering how to respond to new federal clean-air regulations. Yesterday they announced they will mothball 3 coal plants [...]
In the midst of water restrictions, tiny Stamford sells its water to the highest bidder
Posted in Coal, Coal Plants, Water, tagged Coal, drought, Lake Stamford, tenaska, Texas on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation certifying that certain counties in Texas are currently threatened by exceptional drought conditions and an extreme fire hazard due to a continuing disaster in several counties in Texas, including Jones and Haskell Counties, which the small town of Stamford straddles. Located 40 miles north of Abilene with [...]
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 »
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, [...]
San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the nick of time.
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, CPS Energy, Deely, San Antonio on June 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CPS Energy, San Antonio’s municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federal regulations. CPS Energy is the nation’s largest city-owned [...]
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