Here’s some great news! With EPA tightening the standards for coal plant emissions, Energy Future Holdings, the parent company of Luminant (formerly TXU) and the major electric power provider for much of North and West Texas, is considering how to respond to new federal clean-air regulations. Yesterday they announced they will mothball 3 coal plants [...]
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New EPA standards for coal plant emissions already working to clear our skies
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, energy future holdings, Luminant, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
New Modeling Shows Air Pollution Violations Are Caused by TXU-Luminant Coal Plants
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Big Brown, Coal, Luminant, Martin Lake, Monticello, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Data on Dangerous TXU-Luminant Pollution Underscores Need for Strengthened Environmental Safeguards The Sierra Club released new reports indicating that three large, North East Texas coal-fired power plants owned by Luminant, formerly TXU, are single-handedly causing violations of federal air quality standards. The three East Texas coal plants addressed in the reports — Big Brown, located [...]
In the midst of water restrictions, tiny Stamford sells its water to the highest bidder
Posted in Coal, Coal Plants, Water, tagged Coal, drought, Lake Stamford, tenaska, Texas on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation certifying that certain counties in Texas are currently threatened by exceptional drought conditions and an extreme fire hazard due to a continuing disaster in several counties in Texas, including Jones and Haskell Counties, which the small town of Stamford straddles. Located 40 miles north of Abilene with [...]
Air pollution: An environmental justice issue for Hispanics
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Coal, environmental justice, mercury, United States Environmental Protection Agency on June 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There are two main causes of air pollution—diesel engines and coal-fired power plants—both of which are prevalent in Texas. And these neighborhood contaminants are having grave consequences, particularly on Hispanics in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of work or housing availability, Hispanics across the country tend to live near some of the [...]
San Antonio’s clean energy push just in the nick of time.
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, CPS Energy, Deely, San Antonio on June 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CPS Energy, San Antonio’s municipal utility, has announced plans to shut its two-unit, 871-megawatt JT Deely coal station down by 2018. The utility estimates this move could save as much as $3 billion in environmental upgrades needed for these aging coal-fired units to comply with pending federal regulations. CPS Energy is the nation’s largest city-owned [...]
Say No To The Las Brisas “Coal” Plant
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged blake farenthold, clean economy coalition, Coal, coke, connie scott, corpus christi, EPA, facebook, joe adame, juan hinojosa, judith zaffirini, las brisas, Lisa Jackson, opic, pet-coke, petroleum coke, rebecca lyons, TCEQ, Texas, todd hunter, youtube on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Towards the end of January an independent panel of judges, the Office of Public Interest Counsel, and the EPA all recommended that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality deny the proposed permit for the Las Brisas petroleum-coke burning plant based on its multiple deficiencies and clear violations of the Clean Air Act. The Perry-appointed commissioners [...]
Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, fighting goliath, robert redford on April 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Robert Redford, who has been a major figure in film in this country since the 60s (as an actor, director, and producer), is once again in the limelight for the release of his new film The Conspirator. But as much of note in Mr. Redford’s life is his lifelong commitment to positive social and environmental [...]
Bill of the Day – SB 15 – was good, now not so much
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, tagged Coal, Energy, public citizen texas, SB 15 on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Senate Natural Resources Committee passed out a state energy policy bill that no longer calls for the closure of the state’s worst air polluting power plants According to committee chair Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay), Senate Bill 15 would create a 12-member Texas Energy Policy Council to advise legislators on “strategic, market-based” energy and [...]
Coal Plants Deliver Only A Fraction of the Jobs Promised
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, jobs on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a New York Times piece, they report on a study by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies in Chattanooga, TN, which takes an in-depth look at the promises of jobs made by builders of new coal plants. No one should be surprised to learn that when wooing a community, developers in just about every [...]
ABC World News Covers Bokoshe Coal Ash Dump
Posted in Coal, Good Government, Toxics, tagged abc, ash, Bokoshe, Coal, coal ash, coal plant, diane sawyer, ok, Oklahoma, Poteau, Public Citizen, world news on March 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
World News with Diane Sawyer is airing a segment tonight on the Bokoshe fly-ash dump in Oklahoma. Public Citizen first worked with the people of Bokoshe and others throughout Oklahoma back in 2008 to oppose the expansion of the Shady Point coal plant in Poteau, OK – the plant that dumps its coal ash in [...]
Wind and solar may be competitive with coal without aid in a decade, Chu says
Posted in Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Coal, Energy, solar power, United States Secretary of Energy, wind on March 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to Bloomberg, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is calling for a national energy policy that will promote the use of clean-energy technologies. This would include U.S. investment in advanced battery technologies, biofuels and efficient high-voltage transmission systems. Secretary Chu went on to say they are expecting wind and solar power may be able to [...]
Army Corps of Engineers should say no to White Stallion coal project
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Coal, environmental impact statement, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Army Corps of Engineers, white stallion power plant on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a reprint of an article that ran in the Houston Chronicle submitted by Air Alliance Houston, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, the No Coal Coalition, Public Citizen and Greenpeace. Here’s the situation: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has “go” or “no-go” decision- making power on a project that could greatly impact [...]
New EPA rules tougher than many anticipated
Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged Big Brown, Coal, mercury, NRG, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas coal-burning power plants – especially those fueled by lignite – could face closures under proposed national standards for coal emissions of mercury and other toxins unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards, which are far tougher than the electric power industry had anticipated, could lead to the shuttering of several coal units in [...]
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