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 »
Prevent Texas from Becoming the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Nuclear, tagged andrews county, Austin, compact commission, Nuclear, public citizen texas, state district court, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas low level radioactive waste dump, waste control specialists on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will hear feedback on a proposed rule allowing the importation of so-called low-level radioactive waste into Texas from across the nation. Under the proposed rules Waste Control Specialists (WCS) would be allowed to import additional radioactive waste from other areas of the country and [...]
Protect Texas from Becoming Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Good Government, Nuclear, tagged andrews county, Arjun Makhijani, compact commission, environment texas, fort worth, import/export rule, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, low level radioactive waste disposal compact commission, no bonds for billionaires, nuclear information and resource service, open meetings act, Public Citizen, public radio, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, state capitol, Texas, vermont, waste control specialists, we can on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SEED Coalition opposes any radioactive waste dumping in Texas, but at minimum seeks to prevent our state from receiving waste from more than just the two Compact States and becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump. With support from Public Citizen, Environment Texas and Nuclear Information and Resource Service and other groups, they will submit comments [...]
Don’t Let Texas Become the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dumping Ground
Posted in Nuclear, tagged andrews county, aquifers, compact commission, corruption, dumping ground, glenn shankle, good to glow, governor perry, groundwater, inadequate site, low level radioactive waste, no bonds for billionaires, Nuclear Power, Nuke Free Texas, nukes, politics, Public Citizen, rad waste, radioactive contamination, radioactive waste dump, save the ogallalaa aquifer, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, Texas, texas capitol, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas compact commission stakeholder meeting, vermont, waste control specialists, WCS, west texas on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Join us next Thursday, December 10th to help stop Texas from becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump! Please Come: Texas Compact Commission Stakeholder Meeting Thursday, December 10th at 9am Texas Capitol, Extension Auditorium, E1.004 You are invited to attend the press conference as well, held by the SEED Coalition, Public Citizen, and Sierra Club, on [...]
Texas Legislature Advances Clean Power and Green Jobs, but Loses Steam in Political Wranglings
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, AECT, andrews county, building codes, carbon sequestration, clean coal, Clean Energy, clean power, compact loophole, Cyrus Reed, distributed energy, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, environmental defense fund, environmental groups, fast tracked water permits, flynn, germaneness, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, house committee on environmental regulation, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, luke metzger, mtbe, no regrets, Nuclear, plug-in hybrids, Public Citizen, PUC, radioactive waste dump, recycling, renewable energy, representative rafael anchia, SEED Coalition, senator ellis, senator troy fraser, Sierra Club, TAM, TCEQ, tdot, texas association of manufacturers, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith, txdot, utility efficiency goal, voter id, water contamination, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Environmental Groups See Clean Energy Groundwork Laid for the Future (Austin) Senate and House members from both political parties showed unprecedented support for developing more renewable energy and energy efficiency in Texas by filing a large number of clean power, green jobs bills in the 81st Texas State Legislature. A number of major bills passed [...]
Help Stop Nuke Waste Loophole; Show Support for HB 3423
Posted in Nuclear, tagged andrews county, byron cook, compact loophole, environmental regulation, jessica farrar, jim dunnam, kelly hancock, ken legler, lon burnam, maine, marc veasey, NRC, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, nuclear waste, ogallala aquifer, radioactive waste, radionuclides, randy weber, Texas, vermont, warren chisum, waste dump on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rep. Lon Burnam’s bill, HB 3423, will be heard on Wednesday, April 1st, in the House Committee on Environmental Regulation hearing at 10:30 AM or upon adjournment, in E1.014. If you are able to come, we’re trying to get as many people as possible to register their support of this bill (by filling out a [...]
Andrews County: A Radioactive Risk for West Texas
Posted in Nuclear, Toxics, tagged andrews county, Capitol Annex, Cyrus Reed, diane d'arrigo, dump, forrest wilder, Karen Hadden, nirs, Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, nuclear waste, Odessa, panhandle, rose gardner, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, terry burns, texas observer, Vince Leibowitz, waste control specialists on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been remiss in my duties as Blog Lady because I haven’t told you anything about the slated Andrews County nuclear waste dump. Oh, you hadn’t heard? TCEQ approved a “low-level” radioactive dump out in the lower panhandle. There wasn’t a contested case hearing — and citizens of Eunice, New Mexico, the closest town [...]

















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