According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the last 12 months have been the warmest in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895, averaging 55.7 degrees Fahrenheit — nearly three degrees warmer than the average May-April, and depending on the numbers for May 2012, the June 2011-May 2012 period will likely surpass [...]
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NOAA says last 12 months are warmest on record . . . and Texas helped.
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged heat, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, noaa, Texas on May 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Wild Fire Risk in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Texas, Texas Forest Service, Wildfire on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The wildfire season has started in Texas as two large fires rage in Jeff Davis County. The Texas Forest Service, working with Texas A&M University, has developed a website that can provide some information about your area’s risk of wildfire and also tells you what you can do to diminish your risk. Click here to [...]
A new scientific study for climate change deniers to bash
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, greenhouse gas, National Science Foundation on April 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after carbon dioxide levels started to rise. This provides even more scientific evidence that there is a connection between warming temperatures and rising carbon dioxide. [...]
EHF – going broke. Will Texas declare it “too big to fail”
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Coal, Dallas Observer, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas on March 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Dallas Observer is reporting that there is a good chance that Energy Future Holdings (EFH) (or TXU for most of us) the state’s largest power generator, will go broke – click here to read their story. The question now becomes – are Texas ratepayers going to have to pay for EHF’s bad bet? Two weeks [...]
If you build it, radioactive waste will come
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Cooper Nuclear Station, radioactive waste, Texas, waste control specialists on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approving rules that open up of the WCS dump site to out of compact waste, we may soon see low level radioactive waste from Nebraska Public Power District’s nuclear facility heading to Texas. The deal between WCS and Nebraska’s Cooper Nuclear Station still must be [...]
EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, greenhouse gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said in a statement announcing [...]
Governor Perry names Toby Baker to replace Garcia at TCEQ
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Rick Perry, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, Governor Perry announced he is appointing Toby Baker, a former policy and budget advisor to Perry on energy, natural resources and agriculture, to replace Garcia who continues to serve in a TCEQ commissioner’s spot that officially expired in August 31, 2011. Mr. Baker’s term will begin April 16 and will expire Aug. 31, 2017. At [...]
What good are rules if they are not enforced?
Posted in Global Warming on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has a proposal to pardon as many as 3,000 environmental rule breakers. Tell the TCEQ that pardoning polluters is no way to make the air and water in Texas cleaner. The TCEQ is changing the rules to allow those with a “poor” record of complying with Texas’ weak [...]
Comment Period for TCEQ Compliance History rule changes extended to March 23rd
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin American-Statesman, pollution, Public Citizen, Rulemaking, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The comment period for the proposed new TCEQ Compliance History rules was extended in large part due to Public Citizen making the public aware that the TCEQ had run test scores on their data from the previous year’s posting but were not willing to release that information to us, the Austin American Statesman or the public. [...]
ACT and other organizations sign on to comments on the TCEQ Compliance History Rules
Posted in Global Warming on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Public Citizen filed comments that had been developed with other Alliance for Clean Texas (ACT) partners. Since we filed our comments, the TCEQ agreed to extend the comment period. We have simple comments in an earlier blog for citizens to submit, but if you want more detailed comments for developing your own, take [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Texas Coalition for Affordable Power Release Report on Electric Deregulation
Posted in Global Warming, tagged deregulation, electric reliability council of texas, Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, texas public utility commission on January 30, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Texas Coalition for Affordable Power’s (TCAP) report on electric deregulation in Texas says the industry has failed to deliver, while industry and agency critics find fault with the reports price and reliability comparisons. Texans have paid higher prices for power that is less reliable – as evidenced by two rolling blackouts – during a decade [...]
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