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Could Texas’ Continued Defiance of EPA on Regulation of Greenhouse Gases Be Costly Posturing?

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged climate change, co2, Coal, EPA, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, perry, public citizen texas on August 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Public Citizen Calls For A Moratorium On Permitting All New Sources Of Greenhouse Gases Until Texas Gets Plan In Place EPA issued proposed rules today that will require Texas to modify its state implementation plan to cover Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). If Texas does not, then EPA is proposing a federal implementation plan (FIP) that [...]

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PUC Chairman Ignores Impending Impact of Coal Emissions

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Barry Smitherman, carbon, co2, Coal, coal plant, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Public Utilities Comissoin, PUC, renewable, Smitherman, Texas on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Barry Smitherman, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUC), made this statement regarding the “progress” Texas has been making in regards to green energy and “responsible” leadership: Texas is the nation’s reddest state on the political map. But it produces more green energy than any blue state. The state’s top political leaders are [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Week-End wrap-up: global warming is REAL, coal ash “too dangerous”

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Barbara Boxer, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, co2, Coal, coal ash, coal ash slurry spill, coal ash spill, coal ash waste, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Kingston on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For any of you global warming denier trolls lurking out there, here you finally have it: ANOTHER final study that undeniably shows a link between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and the warming that has occurred. Yes, yes, and the sky is blue as well. AND the Earth revolves around the sun. I know most of [...]

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Mayors to the Rescue on Climate Change

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, City Government, Clean Energy, climate change, Climate Protection Agreement, co2, college station, emissions, Kyoto, Local Government, Mayors, Seattle, Texas, wind on May 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Climate change is clearly an important issue, and there is a lot that needs to be done about it at all levels of society. Fortunately there have been individuals and localities that have made great efforts to reduce their carbon footprint, and this should be applauded. I want to focus on a particular success in [...]

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EPA’s Declaration that Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public is Long Overdue

Posted in Global Warming, tagged andy wilson, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, citizen andy, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, Congress, drought, endangerment finding, EPA, Gene Green, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, house energy and commerce, Joe Barton, Lisa Jackson, lowered crop yields, Markey, mass v epa, michael burgess, president obama, Public Citizen, supreme court, Texas, Waxman on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

NEWSFLASH! Carbon Dioxide emissions may represent a threat to public health or welfare. Shocking, I know. But what is old news to the rest of us, released in the form of a proposed endangerment finding by the EPA, is actually a really big deal. Environmentalists and concerned citizens alike have been waiting years for this [...]

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NRG Coal Plant Hearing Protest

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Water Action, co2, coal plant, environment texas, EPA, epa vs mass, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, Karen Hadden, luke metzger, nrg limestone, permit application, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, SEED Coalition, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, texas climate emergency campaign, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last Friday two administrative law judges refused to hear testimony on the impact of carbon dioxide emissions during the permitting process for the NRG Limestone coal-fired power plant. The contested case hearing for NRG’s air quality permit application will be going on all week long, but testimony on the proposed plant’s contribution to global warming [...]

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Jackson to Reverse Johnson’s Reversal!

Posted in Coal, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, co2, Coal, coal fired power plant, david bookbinder, Desert Power Electric Cooperative, emissions, environmental defense fund, EPA, federal register, Global Warming, global warming emissions, Massachusetts v EPA, midnight memo, natural resources defense council, Sierra Club, Stephen Johnson, utah on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Breaking News! Remember back in December, when I was having a daily conniption due to various midnight memos and parting shots from the outgoing Bush administration? Particularly troubling was former EPA administrator Stephen Johnson’s decision to reverse the landmark Bonanza decision. Well, now Johnson’s reversal has been reversed. Last November the EPA’s governance board ruled [...]

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