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CBO says climate bill would cut deficit by $19B

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the climate & energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would reduce the federal deficit by about $19 billion over the next ten years.  The CBO is responsible for providing Congress with nonpartisan analyses of economic and budget issues, and lawmakers rely on it for guidance.  This is the [...]

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Climategate: The Real Climate Sham

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) deniers went crazy a few months ago with an email controversy involving the University of East Anglia in Britain. Joining an earlier finding by the House of Commons, a British panel has just issued a sweeping exoneration of all scientists involved. Climatologist Phil Jones was immediately reinstated in his position at [...]

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Climate Activist Ted Glick Sentenced

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, green jobs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Ted Glick,  policy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was just sentenced for his demonstration on September 8. I am on one year’s probation, I need to pay an $1100 fine, I need to do 40 hours of community service in D.C. and if I’m arrested over the next year I automatically go to [...]

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Canadian Tar Sands Meeting in Houston

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here is the most recent footage from the additional State Department meeting that was held in Houston for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. See this post for the footage from the 4 original meetings in East Texas. For more info on the tar sands pipeline visit citizen.org/texas and dirtyoilsands.org. [...]

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Austin Environmental and Consumer Advocates say “Try Again” to Austin Energy General Manager Candidate choices

Posted in Energy, Good Government, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

After a several hour closed-door meeting between the two remaining candidates for Austin Energy’s General Manager position and some of Austin’s best environmental, energy, and consumer advocates, all of the groups represented came to the same conclusion: neither of these candidates was a right fit for Austin. In fact, former City Councilwoman Brigid Shea told [...]

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TCEQ Decides That Regulating Pollution Isn’t Their Job

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Dirtiest Oil in the World to be Refined in Texas?

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Transportation, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

TransCanada, a pipeline company out of Canada, wants to build a pipeline to bring the dirtiest kind of oil in the world from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Houston and Beaumont. This oil is many times dirtier than conventional crude and allowing Houston area refineries to process it would increase air [...]

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White Stallion Town Hall Meeting

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This footage is of the town hall event that was held in Bay City in April. Though invited, White Stallion representatives refused to show up to answer questions from the public. Some Bay City officials, including Mr. Owen Bludau of the Matagorda Economic Development Corporation and Judge Nate McDonald did attend to voice their positions [...]

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EPA Hearing in Dallas on New Ozone Standard

Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Resolution Undermining Clean Air Act Faces Senate Vote Thursday

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Tomorrow, Thursday June 10, Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) “Disapproval Resolution” will be voted on in the Senate. If passed, it would overturn the EPA’s “endangerment finding”, undermining the Clean Air Act- which by the way is the most successful piece of environmental legislation- and stripping the EPA of its right to regulate Greenhouse Gas emissions. [...]

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Texas’ Political Culture Protects ‘Economic’ Interest Over Environment

Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Renewables, TCEQ, Toxics, green jobs, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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New study shows jobs from Kerry-Lieberman mostly in Nukes, CCS

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, green jobs, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »

One point we often forget when debating climate change strategies is the major economic case for changing our economy to new, clean technology.  A new study has been released on the impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which we’ve never been so hot on, but it shows that despite what the chicken littles at the Chamber [...]

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Public Citizen congratulates EDF and Tenaska on their deal to sequester CO2.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has agreed to do what the state’s environmental agency should be doing by  assuring that  Tenaska’s commitment to sequester CO2 emissions can be enforced if this plant is built. While this deal may reduce some concerns about CO2, it doesn’t mean that this still isn’t a dirty old coal plant, [...]

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The Other Coal Deaths

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A guest column by Ted Nace of CoalSwarm: Every day in the United States, on average, 65 people die due to particulates from coal plants. On average, each of these deaths represents 14 years of lost life. These 65 deaths happen day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. They come [...]

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Climatology vs Meteorology

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The words sound similar, but are they? Here are the definitions from Webster: Climatology: the science that deals with climates and their phenomena Meteorology: a science that deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather and weather forecasting So even their definitions seem similar, at least on the surface. But as Stephen [...]

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