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Senate to hear testimony on February power outages

Posted in Global Warming, tagged hearing, rolling blackouts, Texas, texas senate on February 11, 2011 | 9 Comments »

The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will convene in a joint hearing with the Senate Committee on Natural Resources at 8:30 a.m. on February 15, 2011, in the Senate Chamber. The purpose of the hearing is to receive updates on the power outages of February 2nd through 4th and to discuss the status, [...]

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CREZ Project Wins Unanimous Approval at PUC hearing

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged CREZ, hearing, texas public utility commission on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved a controversial project to construct new power lines in the counties in the area around Hillsboro over the objections of numerous landowners from the area and several local elected officials. The 3-0 vote came late yesterday afternoon after testimony from people likely to be affected by the $170 million project [...]

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Coal Ash EPA Hearing in Texas

Posted in Coal, Energy, Good Government, Toxics, tagged Coal, coal ash, dallas, EPA, hearing, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas, tx, waste on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA is holding hearings on newly proposed coal ash regulations throughout the country. One of the few places they’ve decided to hold a hearing is Dallas. Coal ash waste facilities have never been properly regulated, despite the fact that coal ash is full of toxic pollutants and carcinogens. This is due primarily to the [...]

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TCEQ Continues to Fail the People of Texas

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged Coal, corpus christi, fail, hearing, judge, judges, las brisas, meeting, pet-coke, Petcoke, petroleum, pollution, Public Citizen, remand, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, Texas on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The TCEQ ruled today on the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas pet-coke plant in Corpus Christi. The good news is they didn’t grant the permit (yet), instead they remanded the permit back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings on a number of issues. However, they refused to acknowledge some of the most [...]

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Answer the Door! It’s Federal Stimulus Funds Knocking!

Posted in Efficiency, tagged floor pass, hearing, seco, select committee on federal economic stabilization, state energy conservation office, state energy program, stimulus, stimulus bill on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Yowza! Looks like the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) won the stimulus dollars scratch off, big time. SECO, which usually has a budget of around $2 million, will get an additional $233.8 million of federal money due to the stimulus bill. That’s quite a sum that will be available to the state for energy efficiency [...]

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