According to the state auditor, Texas environmental regulators must recover or account for more than $62 million of a grant program, Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP), that’s aimed at improving air quality in some of the nation’s most polluted areas. TERP provides incentives to individuals, businesses and government agencies that replace old vehicles and industrial equipment with [...]
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Texas Emissions Reduction Plan under scrutiny by the state auditor
Posted in Air Quality, tagged air pollution, TERP, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
GasLand: A Must Watch Documentary
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, solar, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, documentary, drinking water, faucet on fire, fracking, gasland, HBO, HBO Documentaries, josh fox, Larry King, Larry King Live, natural gas drilling, oil and gas wells, pipe explosion, rig explosion, T. Boone Pickens, water, water on fire, Water Pollution, Water Quality on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, Larry King interviewed T. Boone Pickens and if you were watching it, you heard him condemn the spill and the US dependence on oil then he raved about natural gas and how safe it is to drill for it. Pickens is not the first. Many have claimed that natural gas is [...]
City’s smog concerns may choke power plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air permit, air pollution, ana hernandez, asthma, bay city, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, harris county, houston, houston chronicle, jessica farrar, kristi thibaut, matagorda county, ozone, Public Citizen, ryan rittenhouse, smog, south texas, state office of administrative hearings, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, white stallion on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anybody catch this article last week in the Houston Chronicle? An important issue to think about: how coal plants will not only affect the surrounding air quality, but that of communities down wind. If the White Stallion coal plant is allowed to be built: Houston, we will have an even worse smog problem. Look for [...]
Dallas Morning News Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules
Posted in Toxics, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, Dallas Morning News, editorial, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, governor rick perry, ozone, pollution, smog, Texas on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Great editorial in the Dallas Morning News this weekend. We couldn’t agree more Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules To the surprise of no one, the Environmental Protection Agency announced tougher ozone limits this week. The move to tighten pollution standards had long been anticipated as evidence mounted to illustrate the serious [...]
EPA: They did it, they did it, they did it, yeah!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Austin, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ozone, smog on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just following up on our post yesterday that the EPA was going to announce a new air quality standard limiting ozone pollution: they did it! The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog…The agency is proposing to set the “primary” standard, which protects public health, at a [...]
TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, army corps of engineers, Carbon Dioxide, citizen sarah, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, copenhagen, denmark, environmental integrity project, eva hernandez, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, maximum achievable control technology, mercury, nox, NRG, nrg limestone, ozone, particulate matter, paul rolke, public citizen texas, robertson county our land our lives, robertson couny, ryan rittenhouse, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, smog, soah, sox, state office of administrative hearings, sunset commission, sunset review, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a third smokestack) is painful. At the very moment that leaders from around the world are meeting to come to an international agreement to [...]
Fast Food Nation Frustration
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Americans, cars, cheeseburger, deforestation, electric spending, Energy, fast food, Global Warming, landfills, nation, national diet, oil, organic, paper, plastic, production costs, waste on November 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
For years fast food restaurants have been our nation’s go-to source for cheap, quick food we can eat on the run or take home to the family to avoid cooking dinner for the night. I am betting that almost every person reading this blog has or will eat a product of the fast food faction [...]
House Democrats Want More!
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged air pollution, Bill, capture, conservation, Energy, energy emissions, energy technology, greenhouse gases, house of representatives, Markey, obama, reduction, renewable, Waxman, Waxman-Markey bill on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama has voiced that two of his top priorities will be climate change and energy. Earlier this month he announced an energy plan that would call for 14% reduction in emissions from the 2005 levels by 2020, and an 83% reduction by 2050. But House Democrats Henry a. Waxman (California) and Edward J. Markey [...]
Good Bills Being Heard in House Environmental Reg
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged air pollution, capitol, clean air act, coal combustion waste, committee hearing, Global Warming, hb 1450, hb 3422, hb 3428, hb 557, hb 769, house environmental regulation, industrial waste, lon burnam, mercury, ozone, Public Citizen, rep. burnam, rep. hernandez, rep. rodriguez, Texas, texas state capitol on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In addition to Lon Burnam’s HB 3423, there are five other good bills that will be heard in the House Environmental Regulation Committee this Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 10:30 am or upon adjournment of the House in the Capital extension – Hearing room E1.014. We are incouraging everyone who has a few minutes to [...]
The Pollution on the School Bus goes Down, Down, Down!
Posted in Diesel, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Air toxics, children, Diesel, health effects, kids, parents, school bus retrofit, school buses, Schools, TCEQ, Toxics on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you like clean air? Do you like clean air for KIDS? Seems like the rest of the state does, too. According to TCEQ, a program to retrofit school buses around the state has been able to retrofit 2300 buses statewide. Even more amazing was the demand for the program exceeding its allotment by 40%, [...]
The Smokestack Effect
Posted in Toxics, tagged air pollution, Air toxics, cancer, education, environmental justice, Schools on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An investigative report by USAToday brought me to tears this morning. Granted, I am a particularly emotional person at a period of transition in my life. I just started a new job (here, with Public Citizen!) in a new town (loving Austin already), and am living out of a suitcase. Things are rather in flux, [...]
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