As fires rage throughout Texas, we should remember that besides brush, farm land and homes, wildfires are a danger to many industrial sites. According to today’s Texas Forest Service incident management situation report, a wildfire designated the Frying Pan Ranch fire in Andrews Co. has been contained, but not before scorching 80,907 acres. While a [...]
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WCS and Texas Wildfires
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged andrews county, radioactive waste, Texas wildfires, WCS on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Public Citizen, SEED Coalition and We Texans, rally against WCS Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Radioactive Waste on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition and We Texans are traveling around the state to get the word out to folks in Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas against proposed bills that would allow states to ship nuclear waste to a West Texas low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. The facility in Andrews County is [...]
Texas Nuke Waste Dump site to Premiere summer blockbuster X-men: First Class
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste on April 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a stunning press release this morning, 20th Century Fox announced that the tiny Texas town of Andrews, home to a new nuclear waste dump owned by Waste Control Specialists, will hold a gala event to premiere one of this summer’s blockbusters, X-men: First Class. For those not familiar, X-men follows a team of super-powered [...]
HB 2184 – moving forward, but now more questions
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged nuclear waste, Texas HB 2184, WCS on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
HB 2184 was voted out of the Texas House State Affairs Committee earlier today. HB 2184 is a piece of legislation that impacts how much, from where and how safely radioactive waste will be transported and stored at a West Texas site, and who will pay for it if something goes wrong. While this bill [...]
HB 2184 – A Texas-Sized Plan for Nuclear Waste
Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged Harold Simmons, HB 2184, Nuclear, radioactive waste, WCS on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
HB 2184 will probably be voted out of the Texas House State Affairs Committee later this afternoon and so far, legislation that impacts how much, from where and how safely radioactive waste will be stored at a West Texas site is moving forward in favor of the private operator, giving them the power to negotiate [...]
March 24th – Bill of the Day
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
HB 2184 – BAD by Lewis
Texans for Lots of Radiation bring attention to nuclear-waste kingpin’s donations to Texans for Lawsuit Reform
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Harold Simmons, Nuclear, Public Citizen, radioactive waste, texans for public justice, TLR on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Texans for Lots of Radiation (TLR too) brought attention to the record donations raised by Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) PAC ($6.9 million in the 2010 election cycle) with help from its No. 1 donor: nuclear-waste kingpin Harold Simmons. To reduce the cost of negligently harming other people, the PAC took 12 cents of every [...]
NRC revising classification of low-level radioactive waste
Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, tagged Nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, radioactive waste on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reprint of NRC notice No. 11-027 February 16, 2011 PUBLIC MEETING FEB. 24 TO DISCUSS REVISIONS TO KEY NRC DOCUMENT ON CLASSIFICATION OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting Feb. 24 in Rockville, Md., to discuss potential revisions to a key document used by agency staff in classifying low-level [...]
Dumping on Texas for Fun and Profit
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Harold Simmons, Jim Hightower, Rick Perry on January 21, 2011 | 8 Comments »
SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN FROM JIM HIGHTOWER Originally posted at http://www.jimhightower.com/ Thank you, California. And you, too, Florida, Maine, Missouri, and the 32 other states that intend to send a very special gift to Texas – namely, their radioactive waste. Now there’s a gift that truly keeps on giving! Of course, Texas asked for it. Well, [...]
Harold Simmons: the political contributor who keeps on giving
Posted in Campaign Finance, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged David Porter, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, Rick Perry, Texas Ethics Commission on January 20, 2011 | 10 Comments »
In December Texans for Public Justice reported that Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons had contributed $620,000 to Governor Rick Perry. TPJ’s publication Lobby Watch questioned how Perry’s appointees could objectively regulate Simmons’ nuclear ambitions. That question looms larger after Simmons gave Perry another $500,000 this in 2010. Having given him a total of $1,120,000, Simmons now [...]
Don’t you pour radioactive waste on my blue suede shoes
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Nuclear Power, Peter Shumlin, Public Citizen, radioactive waste, Texas on January 5, 2011 | 10 Comments »
The Texas Low-level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approved rules yesterday that pave the way for 36 states to export low-level radioactive waste to a remote landfill along the Texas-New Mexico border. The 5-2 vote by the TLLRWDCC came after last-minute legal maneuvering on Monday failed to delay the meeting when a federal judge threw [...]
VOTE on Radioactive Waste – We Got Screwed
Posted in Global Warming, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County Texas, Harold Simmons, Nuclear, nuclear waste, public citizen texas, radioactive waste, Texas, vermont on January 4, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Well for those who have been waiting to hear how the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) voted on the new rule that would open Texas up to accepting radioactive waste from as many as 36 other states (and possibly beyond that), it is no surprise that the Compact Commission voted in favor of [...]
Correction and Update: VOTE on Radioactive Waste NOT Halted
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Harold Simmons, nuclear waste, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, radioactive waste, water, WCS on January 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
UPDATE: Judge Sam Sparks of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas just dismissed the case to enjoin the Compact Commission meeting tomorrow, saying while he was concerned about the issue of citizen’s ability to participate fully, he did not have jurisdiction to enjoin the meeting, and threw the whole case out allowing [...]
Judge orders halt to Compact Commission meeting: did opponents of expansion of waste dump just win?
Posted in Radioactive Waste, tagged nuclear waste, Public Citizen, radioactive waste on December 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
UPDATE: Hope you’ve been keeping an eye on this, but just needed to point out there have been major developments on this which make this post now completely false. We don’t believe in just dumping things down the memory hole here, but do believe in making sure we get things right. The updates are all [...]
Texas may get a lump of radioactive waste in their stocking if billionaire donor to Governor Perry has his way
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County waste dump, Grinch, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, waste control specialists, WCS on December 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
UPDATED: Thanks to everyone who commented! We’ll have a blog wrapup/ news release ASAP. VIDEO FROM OUR PRESS CONFERENCE ! And check our flikr photostream here on the blog for non moving pictures from this morning, if that’s more your thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark, already in progress. ORIGINAL POST: [...]
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