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DOE weighing in on the fracking debate

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu may play a role in sorting out the entangled mess of misinformation and spin about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. U.S. gas producers are looking to ramp up industrialization in rural areas outside of some of the nation’s largest cities.  Secretary Chu has indicated that the White [...]

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Flex permit companies moving toward compliance with federal standards

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that all `flexible permit’ companies in Texas have agreed to apply for approved air permits, helping to achieve clean air in the state and providing for regulatory certainty. Under the Texas flexible permit rule, certain industries were allowed an exemption from having to disclose pollution for each individual smokestack [...]

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Are we getting “fracked”?

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , on July 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What happens when you let Big Business regulate itself? – You get fracked. Hydraulic fracturing — also known as fracking — is a controversial method of natural gas extraction that involves injecting a toxic chemical sludge into the surface of the earth until it rips open. And it’s a case study in the dangers of [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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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EPA takes over greenhouse gas permitting in Texas

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , , on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tuesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule allowing it to take over greenhouse gas (GHG) permitting authority in Texas . The agency said that EPA’s permitting authority to process Texas’ permit applications for GHGs was effective on May 1.  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has indicated that 167 GHG-emitting sources [...]

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Sunset Bill up in the House tomorrow

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged , , , on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

HB 2694, the sunset bill for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will be heard on the house floor tomorrow and several dozen amendments have be prefiled.  Of concern to any of you who have opposed a permit being granted is Representative Warren Chisum’s (R-Pampa) proposed floor amendment to HB 2694 which would completely undercut the Contested [...]

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Bill of the Day – SB 875 by Fraser – BAD

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , on April 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Senate Bill 875 by Sen. Troy Fraser (R-Horsehoe Bay) would take away a Texan’s right to sue a company for “nuisance” or “trespass” resulting from greenhouse gas emissions if that company is compliant with air emissions permits issued by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or an agency of the federal government. The bill would roll [...]

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Encourage the EPA to issue strong New Source Performance Standards without delay

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Repower America, wants to share an important piece of news with you. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to limit global warming pollution from big fossil fuel industries like power plants and petroleum refineries. These industries alone account for about 40% of the global warming pollution in the U.S. — making them the [...]

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Austin’s Fayette coal-fired power plant sued

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged , , , , on March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »

LCRA’s Fayette Power Project is under legal attack by three anti-pollution groups who filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the coal-fired power plant located near La Grange, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Integrity Project, Environment Texas and Texas Campaign for the Environment. Claiming LCRA’s Fayette Power Project has [...]

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Barton, Cornyn among co-sponsors of measure to stop GHG regulations

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on March 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Congressman Joe Barton’s (R-Ennis, TX) office says he might introduce Texas-specific legislation to limit the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, but for now he’s signing on as a co-sponsor to a measure filed yesterday aimed at stopping the federal regulation of greenhouse gases. Barton is putting together a coalition of government officials at all [...]

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Dallas EPA hearing on CO2

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA and Texas are in a dispute over whether the EPA can legally regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and whether it has a right to issue greenhouse-gas permits in Texas when the state refuses to do so. It become necessary on Jan. 2nd for the nation’s largest new industrial expansions – chiefly [...]

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Climate change deniers beget climate change deniers

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Michigan’s Fred Upton, who became the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in early January, is a climate change denier, reversing a position he took when he told his home town paper, the River Country Journal, in 1999 that, “Climate change is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions. Everything must be on [...]

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Texas AG to testify in DC about Texas’ lawsuits against the EPA

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , , on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Texas’ Attorney General, Greg Abbott is taking his fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Washington DC today. Abbot will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how he believes the EPA’s policies are affecting Texas. Abbott, TCEQ and the governor have been on the warpath against the EPA for some time.  Abbott, [...]

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Where’s the Outrage? TCEQ Approves Las Brisas Pollution Permit

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2011 | 8 Comments »

In a completely un-shocking and saddening display of administrative arrogance, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) commissioners Bryan Shaw and Buddy Garcia granted an air permit for the proposed Las Brisas coal plant. Commissioner Carlos Rubinstein abstained from voting due to being briefed on the permit when he previously served as deputy executive director. [...]

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EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , on January 14, 2011 | 7 Comments »

The much anticipated hearing between the Environmental Protection Agency and Texas regarding the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will occur this morning in Dallas, Texas.  The hearing is set to begin at 10:00 AM and is expected to continue through 7:00 PM this evening.  The hearing will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the [...]

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