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TCEQ to vote on flex permit revisions, but EPA says it still may not be good enough

Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged abilene, goliad, Sunset Advisory Commission, sweetwater, tenaska, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, uranium mining on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The proposed revisions to the state’s controversial (and according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - illegal) flexible air permitting programs submitted in June in an effort to reach a compromise with the EPA, are scheduled for a formal vote at tomorrow’s hearing of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Under the proposed revisions, facilities with [...]

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Abilene Town Hall on TCEQ Sunset, November 18th

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged abilene, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Abilene, Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Abilene town hall will take place Thursday, November 18th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unity Church of Christianity. All are invited to attend these town halls [...]

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Recap: Roll Beyond Coal Tour

Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Austin, bay city, clean air act, clean economy coalition, coal block, coal plant, college station, corpus christi, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal climate change legislation, flex permits, grandfathering, grassroots, H.R. 2454, houston, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, lone star chapter, Multi-County Coalition, no coal coalition, public citizen texas, roll beyond coal, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, T.P.O.W.E.R., TCEQ, Texans Protecting Our Water Environment and Resources, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Waco on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The November/December edition of Public Citizen News, a bi-monthly newsletter distributed to Public Citizen members, featured this article on our statewide “Roll Beyond Coal” Tour. Since not all of you out there get the newsletter, I thought I’d share: ‘Roll Beyond Coal’ Tours Texas By Geena Wardaki It’s not often that you lug a 20-foot-tall [...]

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Sunday Morning Sequestration Revelation

Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Carbon Dioxide, carbon sequestration, Coal, mercury, pollution, sweetwater on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out the following letter to the editor from the Abilene Reporter News. Turns out a local resident of Sweetwater recently had a revelation about the nature of coal and carbon sequestration. Interesting theory… Why are we digging up stuff God wants buried? I believe that God has a purpose for coal, and it’s up [...]

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