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Lying Liars and the Climate Deniers

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Congress, Global Warming, John Boehner, Kieth Olbermann, not an energy tax, propoganda, Waxman-Markey bill, Worst Person in the World on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And so it begins…. We knew as soon as there was a draft climate bill that it would be falsely attacked and derided disingenuously as “an energy tax.” But we had no idea to what extent the truth-stretchers would go to make their rhetorical points. Did I say stretch the truth? I meant break, beat, [...]

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Youth Storms US Congress at Powershift–Largest Lobby Day in Environmental History

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, carbon cap, Carbon Dioxide, Clean energy corps, climate change, Coal, Congress, Department of Energy, geothermal, global climate treaty, green jobs, greenhouse gas, house of representatives, obama, powershift 09, Public Citizen, renewable energy, Renewables, senate, solar power, stimulus package, student activists, washington dc on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the fight for a greener future, America’s youth has and is continuing to be one of the strongest forces. Recently, I participated in Powershift 2009–the largest summit on climate and energy in United States’ history. Roughly 12,000 attended the conference, and the overwhelming majority of participants were students from high schools and colleges spanning [...]

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Huge Coal Ash Spill in North Potomac, Terrible Message Moves Toward Washington DC

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged 1Sky, coal ash spill, coal waste, combustion waste, Congress, luke, maryland department of the environment, md, north potomac, nrdc, Obama administration, pete altman, Skywriter blog, switchboard blog, toxic ash, washington dc on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A ruptured pipeline has just spilled 4,000 gallons of toxic coal ash into the north Potomac River, reports Pete Altman at NRDC’s Switchboard blog: The Maryland Department of the Environment just reported that a ruptured pipeline carrying wet coal ash has spilled 4,000 gallons of the toxic-laden stuff into the North Branch of the Potomac [...]

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Stimulus Package is Kosher!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged $50 billion, beyond nuclear, Congress, federal loan guarantees, house, kevin kamps, Loan Guarantees, Nuclear Pork, senate, stimulus package on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just last night the House and Senate came to agreement: a $789 billion Stimulus Package with no traces of nuclear pork! The $50 billion in federal loan guarantees that could have been used by nuclear and coal industries have been carved out. Thank you, Legislators, for finally seeing that the nuclear sector will not contribute [...]

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Energy Efficiency Stimulates, but Nuclear Pork Fizzles

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Nuclear, tagged Congress, congressional budget office, economic recovery, Energy Efficiency, house, karnes city, kingsville, Luminant, Nuclear, nuclear loan guarantees, nuclear loans, nuclear waste, obama, Public Citizen, PUC, renewable energy, senate, senate appropriations committee, shovel ready, south texas nuclear plant, stimulus bill, stimulus package, Tom "Smitty" Smith, uranium mining, wall street on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A message from our director, Tom “Smitty” Smith: Today the House and Senate are working to reconcile their different versions of the long-awaited economic stimulus package. The stakes are now higher than ever for Texans, who stand to gain from billions that could go toward developing renewable energy and efficiency in the state, reducing pollution [...]

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Stimulus Bill Stuffed with $50 Billion of Glowing Nuclear Pork!

Posted in Nuclear, tagged bailout, brent blackwelder, Congress, Department of Energy, federal financing bank, friends of the eart, michael mariotte, nuclear information and resource service, Nuclear Pork, Nuclear Power, physicians for social responsibility, robert bennett on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: With the passage of the stimulus bill through the Senate, now the joint conference committee will have to iron out the differences between the House and Senate bills. This is the last chance for Congress to strip this out of the bill. Does your Congressman know how you feel about nuclear pork? Environmentalists are [...]

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Public Citizen and The Texas Observer: Voices in the Same Choir? Come sing along!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Bea Moorehead, Carbon Dioxide, Citizen Action, climate change, Congress, Eliot Shapleigh, Energy Efficiency, Obama administration, Solar Incentives, Texas Impact, Texas Legislature, The Texas Observer, Who Represents Me? on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Observer just ran an article on the top ten issues the Texas Legislature should address this session. Anybody want to guess what number two was? If you guessed climate change… you’ve probably been reading this blog. And you’d be right! The Observer expects for Texas leaders to more amenable to climate change action [...]

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Deadline Today!

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Green Stimulus, obama, renewable energy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Congress is voting on Obama’s much anticipated stimulus package today. If you want this package to include measures to promote renewable energy and a public works project to make public buildings more energy-efficient — and if you read this blog, I bet you do — tell your legislator now! It will only take a minute, [...]

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Phthalates: Banned in Mexico, OK in Texas?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Congress, consumer product safety commission, consumer protection, Joe Barton, phthalates, Toxics on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today’s Dallas Morning News editorializes about banning phthalates, (pronounced THAL-ates), a chemical made from petroleum that makes plastics bendable and has already been banned in Europe, California, Washington, and even Mexico. Among the top products that use phthalates in their plastics? Children’s toys. As a father of two children under the age of 3 whose [...]

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