The Sierra Club claims the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally gave four coal-fired power plants passes to pollute the air. The Sierra Club says the state in December illegally approved permit amendments for Luminant Generation Co.-owned plants in Freestone, Rusk, Titus and Milam counties (Big Brown, Martin Lake, Monticello and Sandow). It claims the [...]
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Sierra Club sues TCEQ for failure to provide an opportunity for public comment on several permits
Posted in Global Warming on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Senator Watson asks PUC Chair, Donna Nelson, to promote solar
Posted in Global Warming on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As interim legislative hearings and ERCOT workshops grapple with the drought’s anticipated stresses for Texas electric generation and reliability, Sen.Kirk Watson (D-Austin), is calling on the Texas Public Utility Commission to give solar energy a push. “You stated that your highest priority as chair of the PUC is to prevent rolling outages,”Watson wrote in a Jan. 13 letter [...]
Obama’s Rejection of Keystone A Sensible Decision
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Keystone Pipeline, keystone xl, Obama administration, Public Citizen on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a statement this afternoon, Obama said that he received a recommendation from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier today recommending that the Keystone XL tar sands Presidential permit application be denied. TransCanada’s first tar sands pipeline leaked 12 times in its first year of operation, although the company estimated it would leak just [...]
What is Environmental Justice and Why did the EPA sing, “Free At Last”
Posted in Global Warming, tagged dr martin luther, environmental justice, environmental justice movement, environmental racism, Eric Holder, Martin Luther King, United States Environmental Protection Agency on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reprinted with permission from Christopher Searles blog – http://chrissearles.blogspot.com/ In January of 2011 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights Affirmative Employment and Diversity at an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I am old to enough to have witnessed and experienced the remarkable progress that’s [...]
Austin Energy drought proofs its energy with new Webberville Solar Project
Posted in Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin Energy, Renewables, solar power, Webberville solar project on January 6, 2012 | 5 Comments »
On a blustery and brilliantly sunny Texas winter day a couple hundred Central Texas citizens, that included officials and solar enthusiasts, gathered on what had been an empty 380 acre field only three years ago to usher in a new era of “drought-proof” energy for the City of Austin. On Friday, January 6, 2012, Austin [...]
Texas 2011 Drought, $93 Billion in Tree Losses?
Posted in Global Warming on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reprinted with permission from Chris Searles‘ blogspot “Nobody knows the true economic value of trees.” That’s the first thing that popped into my head last week when I read the Texas Forest Service recently estimated up to a half billion Texas trees measuring at least five inches in diameter were lost due to the unrelenting [...]
Wishing you a happy holiday season
Posted in Global Warming on December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Texas Groups Hail First-Ever Protections from Mercury Pollution
Posted in Global Warming on December 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Texas environmental and public health groups welcome today’s new EPA safeguards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from the smokestacks of the nation’s aging fleet of coal and oil-fired power plants. The new public health protection has been developed over nearly twenty years and is required by law under the Clean Air Act, [...]
Help! Tar sands pipeline – it all comes down to Barack Obama and YOU!
Posted in Global Warming on December 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Big Oil’s representatives in the House and Senate are pushing legislation that would rush approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Up until now President Obama has stood strong, threatening to reject any bill that includes the pipeline. But in the last hour, some terrible news has begun to leak from DC. President Obama [...]
NRC halts STP expansion over foreign ownership issues
Posted in Global Warming on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has suspended its review of the foreign ownership portion of the application to expand the South Texas Project nuclear plant over concerns that the owners haven’t done enough to ensure domestic control of the plant. Toshiba Corp., based in Japan, could obtain an 85 percent ownership stake in the two nuclear plants [...]
Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and Sandy Creek Reach Legal Agreement To Slash Air Pollution
Posted in Global Warming on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and Sandy Creek Energy Associates filed a consent decree with a federal court settling legal challenges to the Sandy Creek Energy Station near Riesel, TX. Although the U.S. Court of Appeals had previously ruled in favor of Sierra Club’s and Public Citizen’s lawsuit against this proposed plant for [...]
2011 – A year of billion dollar weather disasters
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Hurricane Irene, National Climatic Data Center on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As 2011 winds to a close, the Weather Channel reports that it has been a volatile year of weather across the United States and the tally of weather-related disasters exceeding a billion dollars set a record for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in a single year earlier this year and now the National Climatic Data [...]
Fishing: A great pasttime, but you may not want to eat that fish without checking the state’s mercury advisories
Posted in Global Warming on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great things about living in Texas is our winters are mild enough that many outdoor activities are year round activities, including fishing. BUT . . ., before you eat that fish, be sure to check out the mercury advisories for the state’s waterways on the Texas Department of Health website to make [...]
Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Department Signoff
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada, United States, United States Department of State on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit amidst concerns about bias, conflicts of interest, and environmental [...]
Does climate change influence extreme weather events?
Posted in Global Warming on November 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released a special report on the influence of climate change on extreme weather events. In the United States, Americans have endured a record-setting series of extreme weather events in 2011, including the Mississippi floods, record high summer temperatures, and severe drought in Texas and Oklahoma. In a [...]
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