Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has been campaigning nationwide for the regulation of toxins such as mercury from [...]
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Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and Industry Pressure
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged acid gases, arsenic, Boiler MACT, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Energy, coal plant, election, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lead, Lisa Jackson, mercury, public citizen texas on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Your Grocery Bill and the Amazon Rainforest: What’s the Big Deal?
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Energy, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Could your trip down to the neighborhood meat market, or your favorite burger joint be contributing to the demise of the Amazon rainforest? Cattle ranching in Brazil is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon. This is old news though. Cattle ranching has been the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since [...]
The Texas Livestock Industry: Are our cows at risk?
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Americans tend to think of climate change as a ‘down the road’ future phenomenon. But the fact of the matter is that although the world isn’t coming to an end tomorrow, we are being impacted by climate change, and much more than we may think. We may feel like we don’t know anyone dealing with [...]
To Beef or Not to Beef: The Cattle Industry is Trampling All Over Our Environment
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Transportation, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, EPA, Global Warming, public citizen texas on February 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The next time you bite into that double quarter-pounder with cheese, you may want to think twice about it. Literally though, once for your health and once for Mother Nature dearest. The livestock and agricultural industry is the single largest producer of methane, one of the biggest contributors to global warming. In fact, 100 million [...]
Austin Energy offers consumers assistance with charging stations for their new EVs!
Posted in Air Quality, Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Transportation, tagged Air Quality, Austin, Austin Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Charging station, Electric vehicle, emissions reductions, EV, EV incentives, EVs, Global Warming, plug-in hybrids, Plug-In Vehicle, Public Citizen, transportation on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the coming weeks you might notice a sleek, new Nissan LEAF or Chevy Volt cruising past you on the road. Many of the major car companies are introducing electric, plug-in vehicles (EVs) designed for the American family market. They range in cost from about $20,000-$45,000 and are small and practical. Not all EVs run [...]
TCEQ Proves Incompetent Once Again, Approves White Stallion Coal Plant
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, tagged approves, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Electricity generation, Energy, matagorda county, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Public Citizen, regulate, regulation, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, white stallion on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continued their decades-long campaign of ineptitude and inadequacy as they approved the air quality permit for the White Stallion Coal Plant proposed for Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast. Their ruling was unanimous despite the fact that the administrative law judges, who spent weeks presiding over [...]
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 [...]
White Stallion Town Hall Meeting
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged Carbon Dioxide, Coal, coal plant, Global Warming, Public Citizen on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This footage is of the town hall event that was held in Bay City in April. Though invited, White Stallion representatives refused to show up to answer questions from the public. Some Bay City officials, including Mr. Owen Bludau of the Matagorda Economic Development Corporation and Judge Nate McDonald did attend to voice their positions [...]
By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of Schedule, Texas Shows Policies Work
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Carbon Dioxide, nitrous oxide, non wind rps, Public Citizen, public utility commission, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, rps, Texas, Texas Legislature, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, TREIA, wind coalition on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office We are thrilled – but not surprised – that because of a growth spurt in the development of wind energy, Texas has met its renewable energy goal 15 years ahead of schedule. Each time Texas has set a renewable energy goal, the state has achieved [...]
On global warming, the science is solid
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, climate research, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, greg abbott, heat-trapping gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, melting ice sheets, methane, nasa, National Academy of Sciences, national oceanic and atomspheric administration, natural gas, nitrous oxide, noaa, oil, professors, rising sea levels, science, scientists, Texas, university of east anglia, waste disposal on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers. Check it out! On global warming, the science is solid In recent months, e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in [...]
Dallas Morning News Editorial: Editorial: Clean air vs. jobs is a false choice
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, clean air, Energy Efficiency, EPA, governor perry, green jobs, lawsuit, solar panels, weatherstripping, windmills on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This editorial from the Dallas Morning News is a little bit old news, responding to Governor Perry’s lawsuit against the EPA’s endangerment finding about carbon dioxide, BUT I really like the message that clean air vs. jobs is a false choice. Because everything we would have to do to create a new clean economy, is [...]
Texas State Climatologist Disagrees with Gov Perry, AG Abbott, and Ag Comm Staples on climate science
Posted in Global Warming, tagged andy dessler, brad johnson, Carbon Dioxide, cia, climate change, co2, endangerment finding, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, George W. Bush, Global Warming, governor perry, greg abbott, ipcc, john nielsen-gammon, National Academy of Sciences, state climatologist, texas a&m, Todd Staples, USDA, wonk room on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may have seen the political bloviating earlier this week when Governor Perry announced he would sue the EPA over their endangerment finding on CO2. Or that Attorney General Greg Abbott signed on, as did Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples, who all ended up calling the science behind climate change flawed, saying: The state’s legal action [...]
Public Citizen and Sierra Club Issue Citation to Governor Perry for “Endangering” Texans
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air contaminant, Carbon Dioxide, climate, climate change, Coal, Coal Plants, coal rush, endangerment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Global Warming, governor perry, greenhouse gas emissions, Public Citizen, public health, Sierra Club, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Perry Flaunts State, Federal Law in EPA Lawsuit Statement from Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office and Ken Kramer, director of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club This morning Governor Perry attempted to show Texas voters that he is bigger than both Texas and federal law by enacting a lawsuit [...]
Obama announces new government goal for reducing greenhouse gases: 28% by 2020
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, climate change, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, no regrets, Texas, Texas Legislature on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Also cross-posted at our Energy Blog: President Obama announced this morning he was putting the government on a low carbon diet. Through a series of initiatives, he hopes to decrease energy consumption through efficiency and switching to alternative energy that is less carbon intensive. As the single largest energy consumer in the U.S. economy, the [...]
Attention: Green businesses and Austinites!
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Applied Materials, Austin, Austin Energy, Carbon Dioxide, co2, copenhagen, Energy Efficiency, energy plan, environmental defense fund, fayette coal plant, greenling organic delivery, matt johnson, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, solar, Texas, wind on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you were as frustrated as I was watching world leaders dither in Copenhagen while the Earth heats up and island nations continue making evacuation plans, there is good news on the horizon for Austin. Austin Energy has developed a consensus plan that would establish our own CO2 cap and reduction plan. The great news [...]
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