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Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting controversy

Posted in Good Government, Sunset, tagged emissions, EPA, glenn shankle, Mark Vickery, Oak Grove, perry, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas, waste control specialists, WCS on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Region 6 Administrator, Al [...]

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EPA Approves Tougher Pollution Emission Limits

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, climate change, Coal, coal plant, emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Public Citizen, SO2, sulfur dioxide on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Federal environmental regulators set new limits on sulfur dioxide emissions for the first time in 40 years. A move that could prevent thousands of asthma attacks and premature deaths while reducing health care costs.. The new rules, which take effect under court order, will prohibit short-term spikes of sulfur dioxide (SO2), which is primarily emitted [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, tagged alberto gonzales, Barnett shale, bill hammond, emissions, Ethics, eye on williamson, flower mound, health insurance, left of college station, mcblogger, nuclear disarmament, nueces county, off the kuff, oil and gas moratorium, Rick Perry, safe sex, sarah palin, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texaskaos, toxins on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the weekly highlights from the Texas Progressive Alliance. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wants to know why Republicans like Victoria’s DA Steve Tyler, Nueces County’s DA Anna Jimenez and (who could forget) Alberto Gonzales abuse their offices? The Texas Cloverleaf thinks Rick Perry is eyeing 2012 before 2010 is even over with. WhosPlayin [...]

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Texas Attorney General Files Injuction Against BP for Clean Air Act Violations

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, bp, bp products, carbon monoxide, clean air, clean air act, emissions, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, TCEQ, texas attorny general, texas city refinery, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas health and safety code, texas water code, unlawful pollutants, volatile organic compounds on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed an official injunction against BP Products’s Texas City Refinery for “violating state health, safety and environmental protection laws, including the Texas Clean Air Act, the Texas Water Code, and the Texas Health & Safety Code.” The refinery was cited for 46 separate emissions of unlawful pollutants, a [...]

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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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Take Action to Fix Climate Change Bill

Posted in Global Warming, tagged carbon credits, climate change, climate change bill, climate change legislation, Coal, Democracy Now!, emissions, giveaways, greenhouse gasses, house energy and commerce, industry, Nuclear, oil, Public Citizen, tyson slocum on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As expected, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved climate change legislation last night and sent it along in the legislative process. We strongly urge lawmakers to make major overhauls to this bill or go back to the drawing board. The problem? Oil, coal and nuclear industries had far too much say in its shaping, [...]

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UT Has Big Carbon Feet

Posted in Consumers, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Campus Environmental Center, Carbon Dioxide, carbon footprint, Druscilla Tigner, emissions, GHG, Good Company, greenhouse gas, natural gas consumption, University of Texas on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Over the past several months, researchers at the Good Company have been compiling a report to measure our own University of Texas’ emissions. Last week the results were announced…. We’ve got big feet. Thereport showed that UT’s total carbon emissions were a 292,434 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2006. Emissions sources not required [...]

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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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If You Lead, They Will Follow

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Barack Obama, Carbon Dioxide, China, climate change, developing nations, emissions, Global Warming, green new deal, grist, India, japan, leadership, prime minister, stimulus package, taro aso on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Throughout the global warming debate, I have often heard an argument I like to call “the China cop-out.” It goes somewhere along the lines of, “Developing nations like China and India are growing so quickly, adding so many new coal-fired power plants, and emitting so much carbon dioxide that it isn’t worth it for the [...]

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