Today the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Board of Directors delayed a vote on providing water to the “White Stallion” coal plant proposed for Matagorda County. Though White Stallion’s Chief Operation Officer, Randy Bird, was expecting and asking for approval of a contract today, the board chose to delay action until August 10. This makes [...]
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Say No To The Las Brisas “Coal” Plant
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged blake farenthold, clean economy coalition, Coal, coke, connie scott, corpus christi, EPA, facebook, joe adame, juan hinojosa, judith zaffirini, las brisas, Lisa Jackson, opic, pet-coke, petroleum coke, rebecca lyons, TCEQ, Texas, todd hunter, youtube on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Towards the end of January an independent panel of judges, the Office of Public Interest Counsel, and the EPA all recommended that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality deny the proposed permit for the Las Brisas petroleum-coke burning plant based on its multiple deficiencies and clear violations of the Clean Air Act. The Perry-appointed commissioners [...]
Texans’ right to protest the permits issued by TCEQ is under attack
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Chisum, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas House of Representatives, texas senate on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Contribution by the Alliance for Clean Texas. When the 82nd Legislature convened in January, we knew we were in for a fight. We knew that industry would try to weaken the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and make it easier to get permits and skirt enforcement. We knew that the odds were stacked in favor [...]
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 [...]
Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, fighting goliath, robert redford on April 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Bill of the Day – SB 15 – was good, now not so much
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, tagged Coal, Energy, public citizen texas, SB 15 on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Senate Natural Resources Committee passed out a state energy policy bill that no longer calls for the closure of the state’s worst air polluting power plants According to committee chair Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay), Senate Bill 15 would create a 12-member Texas Energy Policy Council to advise legislators on “strategic, market-based” energy and [...]
Coal Plants Deliver Only A Fraction of the Jobs Promised
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, jobs on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a New York Times piece, they report on a study by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies in Chattanooga, TN, which takes an in-depth look at the promises of jobs made by builders of new coal plants. No one should be surprised to learn that when wooing a community, developers in just about every [...]
ABC World News Covers Bokoshe Coal Ash Dump
Posted in Coal, Good Government, Toxics, tagged abc, ash, Bokoshe, Coal, coal ash, coal plant, diane sawyer, ok, Oklahoma, Poteau, Public Citizen, world news on March 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
World News with Diane Sawyer is airing a segment tonight on the Bokoshe fly-ash dump in Oklahoma. Public Citizen first worked with the people of Bokoshe and others throughout Oklahoma back in 2008 to oppose the expansion of the Shady Point coal plant in Poteau, OK – the plant that dumps its coal ash in [...]
New EPA rules tougher than many anticipated
Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged Big Brown, Coal, mercury, NRG, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas coal-burning power plants – especially those fueled by lignite – could face closures under proposed national standards for coal emissions of mercury and other toxins unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards, which are far tougher than the electric power industry had anticipated, could lead to the shuttering of several coal units in [...]
Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate
Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged action, ash, Coal, coal ash, coal ash waste, Congress, EIP, Global Warming, landfill, senate, urgent, us on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste landfills. The following is a message from our friends with Environmental Integrity Project. Please take a few moments to contact your senator and [...]
Student Activists Shut Down Coal Meeting
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Ballpark, clean coal, Coal, Global Warming, green action, Hilton, Missouri, Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment, MORE, National Coal Council, St. Louis, student life, Washington University on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Great news from St. Louis! Students and other activists from “Green Action” (at Washington University in St. Louis) and Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) entered the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark to disrupt a meeting of the National Coal Council – a federal advisory committee to the U.S. secretary of energy (see their extremely dramatic [...]
Rolling Blackouts, who’s to blame?
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, electric reliability council of texas, Power outage, public citizen texas, Texas on February 2, 2011 | 12 Comments »
A massive winter storm rolled through Texas last night causing 7,000 megawatts worth of power plants to shut down and in the wee hours of the morning, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator, declared an energy emergency. ERCOT called on state energy suppliers to cut about 4,000 megawatts worth of power [...]
Where’s the Outrage? TCEQ Approves Las Brisas Pollution Permit
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged CEC, clean air act, clean economy coalition, Coal, corpus christi, EPA, granted, hal suter, jerry sansing, las brisas, permit, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on January 26, 2011 | 8 Comments »
In a completely un-shocking and saddening display of administrative arrogance, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) commissioners Bryan Shaw and Buddy Garcia granted an air permit for the proposed Las Brisas coal plant. Commissioner Carlos Rubinstein abstained from voting due to being briefed on the permit when he previously served as deputy executive director. [...]
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