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Texas last holdout on issuing greenhouse gas permits

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, TCEQ, tagged clean air act, EPA, flex permits, fort worth star telegram, George W. Bush, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gases, Major stationary source, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

With states scrambling to align their own rules with U.S. EPA‘s new regulations, which are set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2011 and require regulators to start issuing Clean Air Act permits next year for large stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Texas is now the lone holdout, according to an analysis by the National [...]

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Hot Texas Summer Leads to Record Energy Consumption

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged baseload, Coal, Consumers, electric reliability council of texas, energy use, ercot, fort worth star telegram, generation capacity, grid, june, Nuclear, outages, peak energy, power grid, record electricity consumption, reuters, solar, summer, Texas on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Just four days into summer, and we’re already are setting records for energy consumption in Texas. Yesterday Reuters reported that the Texas grid had set a new record for peak energy consumption in the month of June. With temperatures already in the 100s in our largest urban ares, thermostats are cranking across the state, and [...]

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Proposed Nuclear Projects in Texas Could Cost $22 Billion

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged bay city, clarence johnson, comanche peak, costs of current and planned nuclear plants in texas, CPS Energy, fort worth, fort worth star telegram, Glen Rose, mayor hardberger, mission verde, Nuclear Power, nukes, San Antonio, san antonio express news, South Texas Project, tommy adkisson, true cost of nukes on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Impressive nuclear headlines in the papers these days, largely as a result of a new report released by our office entitled: “Costs of Current and Planned Nuclear Power Plants in Texas: A Consumer Perspective. The report finds that the proposed expansions of nuclear power plants in Bay City (South Texas Project) and Glen Rose (Comanche [...]

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