The U.S. Senate is set to take a vote to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules affecting downwind communities. This single vote – tomorrow at noon – will be an up or down vote in the U.S. Senate and will dramatically affect the EPA’s work on clean air issues from stationary sources like coal plants. S.J. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Environmental Protection Agency’
Call your Senator and ask them to not block CSAPR!
Posted in Coal, tagged air pollution, csapr, Environmental Protection Agency on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and Industry Pressure
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged acid gases, arsenic, Boiler MACT, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Energy, coal plant, election, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lead, Lisa Jackson, mercury, public citizen texas on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has been campaigning nationwide for the regulation of toxins such as mercury from [...]
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 | 7 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 [...]
Website offers some details about fracking chemicals: A public education effort or a slick PR campaign to take pressure off the natural gas industry?
Posted in Air Quality, tagged Chemical substance, drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Halliburton unveiled a new website that offers some details about the mix of chemicals used in a natural gas drilling technique following the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) decision last week to subpoena Halliburton to force the company to turn over information about the chemicals it produces for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Halliburton has said [...]
Corpus Christi citizens meet to begin the process of fixing TCEQ
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Air Quality, Clean Energy, coal plant, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, public citizen texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
TCEQ is broken. It’s not working in the public’s interest, and there are direct costs that all of us in the state of Texas are paying as a result. But there is an opportunity for us to fix some of the problems with this broken state agency by participating in the Texas Sunset process. The Alliance for [...]
TCEQ Decides That Regulating Pollution Isn’t Their Job
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, public citizen texas, solar power on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the TCEQ remanded the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas petroleum-coke plant back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings. What they didn’t do is require the facility to do what’s called a case-by-case analysis of MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) for Hazardous Air Pollutants. In effect, TCEQ (the agency tasked with protecting [...]
EPA Hearing in Dallas on New Ozone Standard
Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged clean air, Clean Energy, climate change, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Global Warming, ozone on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Video footage of a public meeting back in March for the Dallas, TX region. EPA has proposed a new NOx attainment standard, and this meeting was held during the comment period. Though an official EPA meeting had been held in Houston, there was no official meeting for Dallas (where Region 6 offices of EPA are [...]
Texas’ Political Culture Protects ‘Economic’ Interest Over Environment
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Global Warming, TCEQ on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was a bit surprising that the EPA finally has taken a stand against the TCEQ’s practices of giving “flexible permits.” Prominent Texas politicians including the governor criticized the action taken by the EPA and once again, Gov Perry used a very important local issue to launch his attacks on the Federal government as part [...]
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 [...]
On global warming, the science is solid
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, climate research, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, greg abbott, heat-trapping gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, melting ice sheets, methane, nasa, National Academy of Sciences, national oceanic and atomspheric administration, natural gas, nitrous oxide, noaa, oil, professors, rising sea levels, science, scientists, Texas, university of east anglia, waste disposal on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers. Check it out! On global warming, the science is solid In recent months, e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in [...]
North Texas Public Hearing on Ozone Pollution — Have Your Voice Be Heard!
Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged al armendariz, arlington, clean air act, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, governor perry, mayor cluck, north texas, ozone, patrick cox, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Support the EPA’s proposal for a stricter ozone pollution standard Join us for an important public hearing at Arlington City Hall, 101 W. Abram St, Arlington, TX. For more info check out http://www.cleanairtexas.org Texas has the potential to be at the forefront of the green economy and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed new ozone [...]
City’s smog concerns may choke power plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air permit, air pollution, ana hernandez, asthma, bay city, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, harris county, houston, houston chronicle, jessica farrar, kristi thibaut, matagorda county, ozone, Public Citizen, ryan rittenhouse, smog, south texas, state office of administrative hearings, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, white stallion on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anybody catch this article last week in the Houston Chronicle? An important issue to think about: how coal plants will not only affect the surrounding air quality, but that of communities down wind. If the White Stallion coal plant is allowed to be built: Houston, we will have an even worse smog problem. Look for [...]
Gov. Perry at it again with EPA lawsuit
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate, climate change, endangerment finding, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, forrest wilder, Global Warming, governor perry, greg abbott, lawsuit, texas observer, Todd Staples on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
If I had a nickel every time we put out a statement saying something along the lines of “Governor Perry is blowing hot air about climate change”…I could probably only really buy a candy bar. Or a coke — a Mexican coke in a bottle, preferably, to be drunk as I eat a fried avocado [...]
Support our work!
Subscribe by Email
Socialize With Us!
Categories
Follow us on Twitter- @PublicCitizenTX
- #BandC the PUC Energy Efficiency rule can be increased, save people money, and keep the lights on. 1 month ago
- Call your Senator and ask them to not block CSAPR! - http://t.co/hJcHjUVw 3 months ago
- State Department's tar sands hearing in Austin, TX a farce. Protester arrested - http://ow.ly/6IILh 4 months ago
- Austin Hearing - State Department on Tar Sands Pipeline; from Canada to Texas - Wednesday, September 28th - http://ow.ly/6FwcE 4 months ago
- Texas BlueGreen Apollo Alliance Clean Energy conference #renewable #cleantransportation #jobs look for the podcast. 5 months ago
Popular Tags
-
Flickr Photos
More Photos 
Citizen Vox Blog- One year since Citizens United v. FEC January 21, 2011 Rick Claypool
- The Midmorning Refill: Despite oil spill, runaway cars, Jersey Shore, 2010 may have not been the absolute worst year ever January 3, 2011 Dorry Samuels
- The Midmorning Refill: Nancy Pelosi says health care law will be her crowning achievement December 21, 2010 Joe Newman
-
![[Valid RSS]](valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
350 Challenge
Pages
Archives
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
Meta
-
Spam Blocked
