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 [...]
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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 »
Thousands rally to protest global warming
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Texas, winter on February 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Heard from a friend yesterday, he’s originally from Connecticut, so unlike us south Texans, thinks one should drive around as long as you can see more than just the outline of a car covered in snow. He ventured out at noon to get coffee and groceries at the Whole Foods in downtown Austin, but the roads [...]
EPA listening to stakeholders about their proposed rules on greenhouse gas standards
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged climate change, greenhouse gas rules, United States Environmental Protection Agency on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a series of “listening sessions” in the coming months in order to get input from stakeholders on the agency’s plans to implement new greenhouse gas standards on power plants and refineries. If you cannot make it to the sessions, each session will be webcast and recorded for later viewing [...]
What is causing all this wicked weather?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Global Warming, wild storms on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MSNBC’s Today Show host Matt Lauer interviews CUNY physics professor, Michio Kaku, about possible causes of these wild winter storms. Click here to watch this segment.
Representative Lon Burnam (D-Ft Worth) taking on climate change
Posted in Global Warming, Texas Legislature, tagged climate change, environment, greenhouse gas, lon burnam, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Vulnerability assessment, Water resources on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
State Rep. Lon Burnam filed legislation (House Bill 977) that would have state agencies develop plans to address the implications their policies might have on climate change. Burnam’s bill is similar to a measure he offered last session. The bill would have 12 entities in the state each publish a plan assessing that entity’s role with [...]
White House climate change coordinator resigns
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged Carol Browner, climate change on January 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Carol M. Browner, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change policy, is resigning. Ms. Browner, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was charged with directing the administration’s effort to enact comprehensive legislation to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases and move the country away from a dependence on dirty-burning fossil fuels. Failing [...]
EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged clean air act, climate change, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Public Citizen, TCEQ on January 14, 2011 | 8 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 [...]
E.P.A. delaying tougher rules on emissions. Are global warming gases next?
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Air Quality Standards, clean air act, climate change, Global Warming, global warming gases, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the face of the changes in the political dynamic in Washington, the Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations. The new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks, but this move will leave in place policies set by President George W. Bush while it pushes back deadlines to July [...]
Texas State Climatoligist talks about Texas and Climate Change
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Current sea level rise, greenhouse gas, intergovernmental panel on climate change, Texas on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas is not immune to the effects of increasing greenhouse gases, according to the state climatologist, John Nielsen-Gammon, of Texas A&M University’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon also says the international science on climate change is fundamentally sound despite challenges from state officials, and the drought in Central Texas is likely to continue. Below [...]
Happy Thanksgiving? Not if climate change has anything to say about it
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, environment, public citizen texas, Thanksgiving, turkey on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Climate change may be affecting the nasty weather that is ensnaring many holiday travelers. And to add insult to injury, warming will affect the price, quality, and availability of your favorite Thanksgiving foods, especially turkey, whose meat will become firmer, less juicy, and tasteless.
TCEQ Sunset Town Halls – Victoria
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged ACT, alliance for a clean texas, Austin, climate change, Coal, commission, EPA, glenn hegar, Global Warming, larry soward, Public Citizen, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas on November 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Texans living around the Victoria region attended a town hall in September to express their concerns about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on a number of different issues, including the proposed White Stallion coal plant in Bay City. On the panel were Sunset Commission Chairman Sen. Glenn Hegar, former TCEQ commissioner Larry Soward, [...]
Congressman Bob Inglis on Climate Change
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Bob Inglis, climate change, republican, U.S. House of Representative on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC) attacks GOP on climate change. Bob Inglis is the ranking member on the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. ### By promoting cleaner energy, cleaner government, and cleaner air for all Texans, we hope to provide for a healthy place to live [...]
CALIFORNIA PUSHES BACK AGAINST TEXAS
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Adrian Grenier, California, California law, climate change, David Arquette, environment, Matthew Cooke, Texas on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Supporters of a California law designed to battle climate change are pushing back against money from Texas oil and gas interests that’s helping to fund an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot in the Golden State that would roll back some of the law’s provisions Starring David Arquette – Written & Directed by Matthew Cooke [...]
Judges Recommend Tenaska Coal Plant Permit Not Be Granted As Is
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Air permit, alj, CCS, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Global Warming, judge, permit, Public Citizen, soah, TCEQ, tenaska, Texas on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Administrative Law Judges (The Judges) who heard the case against the proposed Tenaska Coal Fired Power plant ruled Friday that Tenaska’s air permit should not be granted as it stands! “The Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) have concluded, based on their review of the evidence and applicable law, that Tenaska failed to meet its burden [...]
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 [...]
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