A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, is available to watch today, Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for the dump” and not made [...]
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Watch the “Story of Electronics”
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Toxics, tagged Business, Electronic waste, Electronics, environment, recycling, The Story of Stuff, Waste Management on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hearing to reconsider allowing radioactive waste shipments from around the country into Texas scheduled November 13th
Posted in Nuclear, Toxics, tagged environment, Low level waste, Nuclear, nuclear waste, radioactive waste, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, united states department of energy, WCS on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission TLLRWDCC will meet in Midland, Texas a week from Saturday (November 13th) to reconsider adopting a rule that was withdrawn in July that would allow for export of low-level radioactive waste for management and disposal from facilities outside of the Texas Compact, this will be followed by a host of generator [...]
The Story of Electronics online film release coming
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, recycling, Toxics, tagged Business, Electronic waste, Electronics, environment, recycling, The Story of Stuff, United States, Waste Management on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, will be released on Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for the dump” and not made to [...]
Tar Sands Operator Fined for Tailing Pond Duck Deaths
Posted in Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged greenpeace, Oil sands, Synacrude, tailing ponds, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
From the New York Times: Syncrude, the largest operator of oil sands projects in Canada, was ordered to pay $2.92 million on Friday for causing the deaths of 1,603 ducks. The company was convicted in June by an Alberta court for failing to deploy scarecrows and loud cannons in April 2008 to prevent the migratory [...]
STOP: Stop Tarsands Oil Pipelines – Voices From Texas Landowners
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Austin Energy, Keystone Pipeline, Oil sands, pipeline, Tar Sands, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Meet Audrey and Jim Thornton, two of the landowners who have the threat of a Canadian tarsands pipeline proposed to run through their land. Tarsands crude is many times more concentrated with toxins and carcinogens than typical, Texas, crude oil. Like just about every other land-owner along the pipeline route, the Thorntons have been threatened [...]
Tar Sands Oil’s Devastating Legacy
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged canada, climate change, dirty, Energy, Global Warming, Keystone Pipeline, oil, Oil sands, Oklahoma, pipeline, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Tar Sands, tarsands, Texas, transcanada on September 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Tar sands oil makes conventional oil look clean by comparison, as it produces 3.2-4.5 times more the carbon footprint than conventional fuel. If that weren’t bad enough cleaner fuels such as natural gas, which otherwise might be used to generate electricity, are wasted in the process of creating more dirty energy from tar sands. Tar [...]
ACTION ALERT- Call in, stop Las Brisas
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Action alert, Air Quality, coal plant, Federal Clean Air Act, public citizen texas, Sierra Club, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve got an Action Alert! This week, hundreds of people from Corpus Christi and across Texas will be calling the Environmental Protection Agency to ask them to ensure that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is complying with the Federal Clean Air Act. To protect our air, our water, our earth, and our health, we [...]
Report Shows Dangers of Coal Ash Waste Sites Throughout the US
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged ash, Austin, climate change, Coal, coal ash waste, EIP, environmental integrity project, EPA, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, report, study, Texas, waste on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In Winter of 2008 a coal ash slurry pond in Tennessee broke its damn, contaminating miles of downstream waterways and people’s homes with deadly carcinogens and other toxic substances. At the time it was called the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez and brought a wake up call to the EPA that this waste [...]
Texas’ Dirty-Energy Money Affects California’s Clean Air
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, Toxics, tagged Big Oil, California AB32, California Environmental Justice Alliance, California Governor, california unemployment, clean air act, dirty energy, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger, oil refineries, Prop 23, Proposition 23, public citizen texas, public health, Tesoro, Valero on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Not only does the pollution of dirty energy companies extend across other states but so does their influence. Not far from Texas, California is fighting two big Texas oil companies to keep its air cleaner. To give you some background, California passed historic legislation in 2006 that mandates the state to cut 25% of its [...]
Coal Ash EPA Hearing in Texas
Posted in Coal, Energy, Good Government, Toxics, tagged Coal, coal ash, dallas, EPA, hearing, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas, tx, waste on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The EPA is holding hearings on newly proposed coal ash regulations throughout the country. One of the few places they’ve decided to hold a hearing is Dallas. Coal ash waste facilities have never been properly regulated, despite the fact that coal ash is full of toxic pollutants and carcinogens. This is due primarily to the [...]
TCEQ Decides That Regulating Pollution Isn’t Their Job
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, public citizen texas, solar power on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the TCEQ remanded the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas petroleum-coke plant back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings. What they didn’t do is require the facility to do what’s called a case-by-case analysis of MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) for Hazardous Air Pollutants. In effect, TCEQ (the agency tasked with protecting [...]
EPA disapproves Texas “flex permitting” program at TCEQ- new programs must follow Clean Air Act, transparency standards
Posted in Energy, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged ACT, asthma, clean air act, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, flex permits, TCEQ, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The EPA announced today that Texas’s much-discussed and derided flex permitting program does not follow the federal Clean Air Act (big surprise </sarcasm>). This was an action that began when the EPA under George W. Bush called into question the transparency and efficacy of the program which allows big polluters to skirt the federal Clean [...]
TransCanada to Build a Tar-Sand Pipeline in East Texas
Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Houston refinary., keystone xl, oklahoma-texas pipeline, tar sand, tar sand pipeline, transcanada, tx pipelines on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While the Department of Energy took a step towards cutting the emissions of the state by approving a Carbon Capture and Storage project for Texas which will start early next year, a nasty tar-sand Pipeline is set to penetrate through Texas land and be completed by late 2011. The first segment of the line which [...]
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