SEED Coalition opposes any radioactive waste dumping in Texas, but at minimum seeks to prevent our state from receiving waste from more than just the two Compact States and becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump. With support from Public Citizen, Environment Texas and Nuclear Information and Resource Service and other groups, they will submit comments [...]
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Protect Texas from Becoming Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Good Government, Nuclear, tagged andrews county, Arjun Makhijani, compact commission, environment texas, fort worth, import/export rule, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, low level radioactive waste disposal compact commission, no bonds for billionaires, nuclear information and resource service, open meetings act, Public Citizen, public radio, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, state capitol, Texas, vermont, waste control specialists, we can on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, army corps of engineers, Carbon Dioxide, citizen sarah, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, copenhagen, denmark, environmental integrity project, eva hernandez, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, maximum achievable control technology, mercury, nox, NRG, nrg limestone, ozone, particulate matter, paul rolke, public citizen texas, robertson county our land our lives, robertson couny, ryan rittenhouse, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, smog, soah, sox, state office of administrative hearings, sunset commission, sunset review, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a third smokestack) is painful. At the very moment that leaders from around the world are meeting to come to an international agreement to [...]
Citizens Win Right to a Hearing in Opposing South Texas Project Nuclear Reactors
Posted in Nuclear, tagged atomic safety and licensing board, department of agriculture, energy security, environmental report, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, livestock, matagorda county, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Public Citizen, radioactive waste, robert v. eye, safety, san antonio water system, saws, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, South Texas Project, susan dancer, toxic discharge, tritium on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
UPDATE: Safety panel hearing in the news: at the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express News Citizen opposition to two proposed nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project continues with another success. On August 27th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that the nuclear applicant, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company [...]
Citizens Groups Win Right to a Hearing for Comanche Peak Intervention
Posted in Nuclear, tagged alternative energy, atomic safety and licen, atomic safety and licensing board, bob eye, comanche peak, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Karen Hadden, Luminant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, SEED Coalition, solar, Texas Representative Lon Burnam, true cost of nukes, wind on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak continues. On August 6th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that Luminant had failed to adequately analyze issues brought by concerned citizens in their Petition to Intervene in the proposed expansion at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. “This is a major victory for [...]
Texas Legislature Advances Clean Power and Green Jobs, but Loses Steam in Political Wranglings
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, AECT, andrews county, building codes, carbon sequestration, clean coal, Clean Energy, clean power, compact loophole, Cyrus Reed, distributed energy, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, environmental defense fund, environmental groups, fast tracked water permits, flynn, germaneness, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, house committee on environmental regulation, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, luke metzger, mtbe, no regrets, Nuclear, plug-in hybrids, Public Citizen, PUC, radioactive waste dump, recycling, renewable energy, representative rafael anchia, SEED Coalition, senator ellis, senator troy fraser, Sierra Club, TAM, TCEQ, tdot, texas association of manufacturers, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith, txdot, utility efficiency goal, voter id, water contamination, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Environmental Groups See Clean Energy Groundwork Laid for the Future (Austin) Senate and House members from both political parties showed unprecedented support for developing more renewable energy and energy efficiency in Texas by filing a large number of clean power, green jobs bills in the 81st Texas State Legislature. A number of major bills passed [...]
Citizens File in Opposition to South Texas Project Reactors 3 and 4
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Arjun Makhijani, bay city, citizen filings, comanche peak, federal energy regulatory commission, fort worth, Karen Hadden, NRG, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Public Citizen, SEED Coalition, south texas association for reponsible energy, South Texas Project, Victoria on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Tuesday citizens submitted a filing to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission opposing NRG’s proposed South Texas Project (STP) nuclear reactors. Petitioners included the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Public Citizen and the South Texas Association for Responsible Energy. This may sound familiar. “Didn’t citizens just file opposition to the nuke a couple weeks [...]
Coal Moratorium Press Conference and Testimony Yesterday
Posted in Coal, tagged carbon capture, carbon legislation, clean economy coalition, climate change, Coal, coal moratorium, coal plant, corpus christi bay, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, floor pass, hb 4383, Karen Hadden, las brisas, mulit county coalition, patricia broadwell, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, representative allen vaught, roger landress, sb 126, SEED Coalition, senator rodney ellis, sequestration, sweetwater, texas medical association, texas observer, Tom "Smitty" Smith, white stallion on March 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday morning we held a press conference to highlight the importance of the proposed coal moratorium bill, SB 126, sponsored by State Sen. Rodney Ellis, and its companion bill in the house, HB 4384, sponsored by Rep. Allen Vaught. SB 126 , which went into committee late Tuesday night, would put a temporary moratorium on [...]
Andrews County: A Radioactive Risk for West Texas
Posted in Nuclear, Toxics, tagged andrews county, Capitol Annex, Cyrus Reed, diane d'arrigo, dump, forrest wilder, Karen Hadden, nirs, Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, nuclear waste, Odessa, panhandle, rose gardner, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, terry burns, texas observer, Vince Leibowitz, waste control specialists on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been remiss in my duties as Blog Lady because I haven’t told you anything about the slated Andrews County nuclear waste dump. Oh, you hadn’t heard? TCEQ approved a “low-level” radioactive dump out in the lower panhandle. There wasn’t a contested case hearing — and citizens of Eunice, New Mexico, the closest town [...]
NRG Coal Plant Hearing Protest
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Water Action, co2, coal plant, environment texas, EPA, epa vs mass, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, Karen Hadden, luke metzger, nrg limestone, permit application, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, SEED Coalition, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, texas climate emergency campaign, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last Friday two administrative law judges refused to hear testimony on the impact of carbon dioxide emissions during the permitting process for the NRG Limestone coal-fired power plant. The contested case hearing for NRG’s air quality permit application will be going on all week long, but testimony on the proposed plant’s contribution to global warming [...]
60 Day Clock For Nuclear Opponents Starts Ticking
Posted in Global Warming, tagged bonnie raitt, comanche peak nuclear plant, comanche peak unit one, graham nash, Karen Hadden, Loan Guarantees, Luminant, Mitasubishi, NRC, nrc federal register, Nuclear, nuclear informationa nd resource service, Nuclear Power, nuclear regulatory comissision, paul winter, Public Citizen, rate hikes, reactor design, SEED Coalition, stimulus bill, Tom "Smitty" Smith, US-APWR on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hey Look! A press release from SEED Coalition and Public Citizen: 60 Day Clock For Nuclear Opponents Starts Ticking; Luminant Moves Forward Toward Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant Reactor Design Not Ready for Primetime The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted notice today on the federal register of Luminant’s application to build two reactors at the [...]
Nuclear Power Too Risky, Too Expensive, Too Dangerous
Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Cyrus Reed, Karen Hadden, Luminant, NRC, Nuclear Power, Public Citizen, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, Tom "Smitty" Smith on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, look! A joint press release from Public Citizen Texas, the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, and the SEED Coalition: An NRC Environmental Scoping Meeting will be held on Jan. 6th in Glen Rose, Texas to take comment on the environmental impact study for two nuclear reactors proposed for the existing Comanche Peak [...]
NRG asks Austin to invest in South Texas nuclear facility expansion
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Austin American-Statesman, Karen Hadden, NRG, Nuclear Power, SEED Coalition, South Texas Project on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Austin American Statesman ran an article yesterday reporting on the City Council’s likely decision to hire a consultant to look into expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear power facility. In February NRG invited the City Council, which owns a 16% stake in the plant, to invest in a project that would double the [...]
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