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Energy Efficiency: Things Were Going So Well Until the Commissioners Got Involved

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Consumers, Diesel, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, tagged Barry Smitherman, Donna Nelson, EEIP, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Ken Anderson, public citizen texas, PUC, Rick Perry, SB546, Texas on July 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Perry Appointees Smitherman, Nelson, Anderson protect consumers from energy efficiency There is a disturbing trend emerging in Texas. A once successful consumer-oriented program is floundering because of a deficit of perspective behind the dais at the PUC. The Public Utility Commission of Texas proposed adopting an update to the state’s energy efficiency program that would [...]

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Good News for Houston, Corpus Christi- So. California ports cut diesel emissions 80%!

Posted in Diesel, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged black carbon, Diesel, Global Warming, particulate matter on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Great news from the Edmunds.com Green Car Blog: Southern California Port Pollution Drops Dramatically Under Clean-Truck Program A clean-trucks program at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California has shown quick progress, with an 80 percent decline in diesel emissions expected by the end of 2010 — a year ahead of schedule. [...]

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The Pollution on the School Bus goes Down, Down, Down!

Posted in Diesel, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Air toxics, children, Diesel, health effects, kids, parents, school bus retrofit, school buses, Schools, TCEQ, Toxics on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Do you like clean air? Do you like clean air for KIDS? Seems like the rest of the state does, too. According to TCEQ, a program to retrofit school buses around the state has been able to retrofit 2300 buses statewide. Even more amazing was the demand for the program exceeding its allotment by 40%, [...]

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Abandon All Hope…

Posted in Coal, Diesel, tagged ADEQ, AEP, arkansas, Coal, Global Warming, hope, plant, SWEPCO, Turk on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

…ye who enter the Turk plant. Last Thursday in Hope, Arkansas there were two meetings. One was widely attended, the other was not… mostly because hardly anyone had heard of it. They hadn’t heard of it because it snuck in under the wire, with barely (if at all) the proper notices and alerts. It was [...]

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The Wheels On the Bus May Go Round, But What Does the Exhaust Do?

Posted in Diesel on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When I think of cliché images from grade school, I think of two things—apples and big, yellow school buses. Apples aside, school buses are a typical part of the grade school experience. Unfortunately, school buses are also some of the oldest and most polluting vehicles on the roads today. School buses emit toxic soot, which [...]

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