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EPA issues first Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the Texas Energy Report, the EPA has issued its first greenhouse gas permit in Texas with the TCEQ refusing to issue permits to LCRA or others The Lower Colorado River Authority received the first Texas Greenhouse Gas permit as it upgrades a 37-year-old generating unit in Llano County to a more efficient natural [...]

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World global warming gas emissions soar

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated the global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide soared by six percent in 2010, the biggest single year increase on record and a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of [...]

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Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt climate change

Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged , , , , , on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Statewide organizations support youth as they appeal TCEQ decision denying petition to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe Three Texas youth and one young adult filed for judicial review today of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) denial of their petition to force action on climate change. Specifically, the rulemaking petition requests TCEQ [...]

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EPA takes over greenhouse gas permitting in Texas

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , , on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tuesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule allowing it to take over greenhouse gas (GHG) permitting authority in Texas . The agency said that EPA’s permitting authority to process Texas’ permit applications for GHGs was effective on May 1.  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has indicated that 167 GHG-emitting sources [...]

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Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, natural gas, tagged , , , , , , on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal, tarnishing one of the natural gas industry’s major claims of being a less polluting and more climate friendly fossil fuel. A megawatt of electricity [...]

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US House Committee to hold hearings on EPA clash with Texas leadership

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, tagged , , , , on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Energy and Power Subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to hold a hearing this Thursday on the clash between Texas officials and the EPA at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.  Click here for more information. A coalition called the Texas EPA Task Force, made up of federal [...]

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Barton, Cornyn among co-sponsors of measure to stop GHG regulations

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on March 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Congressman Joe Barton’s (R-Ennis, TX) office says he might introduce Texas-specific legislation to limit the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, but for now he’s signing on as a co-sponsor to a measure filed yesterday aimed at stopping the federal regulation of greenhouse gases. Barton is putting together a coalition of government officials at all [...]

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Attack on climate change solutions through a government funding bill

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The funding bill the House of Representatives voted in favor of is an attack on climate change solutions and climate change science. The House cuts would: Prohibit the EPA from setting limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries, among the most significant sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States. [...]

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Three Texas Congressmen put forward an amendment to hobble the EPA

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on February 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Three Texas Republican Congressmen (Poe, Barton and Carter) successfully attached an amendment targeting the EPA to a continuing resolution on spending that is needed to keep the federal government in business for the seven months remaining in the current fiscal year The amendment would thwart the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce regulations [...]

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Dallas EPA hearing on CO2

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA and Texas are in a dispute over whether the EPA can legally regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and whether it has a right to issue greenhouse-gas permits in Texas when the state refuses to do so. It become necessary on Jan. 2nd for the nation’s largest new industrial expansions – chiefly [...]

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Representative Lon Burnam (D-Ft Worth) taking on climate change

Posted in Global Warming, Texas Legislature, tagged , , , , , , , on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

State Rep. Lon Burnam filed legislation (House Bill 977) that would have state agencies develop plans to address the implications their policies might have on climate change. Burnam’s bill is similar to a measure he offered last session. The bill would have 12 entities in the state each publish a plan assessing that entity’s role with [...]

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EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas

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

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EPA wants to move ahead and issue Texas greenhouse gas permits

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked a Washington court to allow it to issue greenhouse gas permits in Texas, even though the state has asked the judges to stop the federal move. The EPA filed its motion on Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. The motion [...]

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Texas State Climatoligist talks about Texas and Climate Change

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Texas is not immune to the effects of increasing greenhouse gases, according to the state climatologist, John Nielsen-Gammon, of Texas A&M University’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon also says the international science on climate change is fundamentally sound despite challenges from state officials, and the drought in Central Texas is likely to continue.  Below [...]

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Texas vs EPA – the saga continues

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged , , , on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a December 1, 2011 deadline for 13 states to develop plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, as the agency prepares to implement its major new rule January 2. A dozen of the states plan to submit emissions plans that do not account for GHG emissions, thereby triggering federal [...]

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