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Air pollution: An environmental justice issue for Hispanics

Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Coal, environmental justice, mercury, United States Environmental Protection Agency on June 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »

There are two main causes of air pollution—diesel engines and coal-fired power plants—both of which are prevalent in Texas. And these neighborhood contaminants are having grave consequences, particularly on Hispanics in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of work or housing availability, Hispanics across the country tend to live near some of the [...]

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Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and Industry Pressure

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged acid gases, arsenic, Boiler MACT, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Energy, coal plant, election, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lead, Lisa Jackson, mercury, public citizen texas on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has been campaigning nationwide for the regulation of toxins such as mercury from [...]

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New EPA rules tougher than many anticipated

Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged Big Brown, Coal, mercury, NRG, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Texas coal-burning power plants – especially those fueled by lignite – could face closures under proposed national standards for coal emissions of mercury and other toxins unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards, which are far tougher than the electric power industry had anticipated, could lead to the shuttering of several coal units in [...]

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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 [...]

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West Texans Question How Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Would Affect Water Availability and Water Quality

Posted in Coal, Toxics, tagged abilene texas, city of abilene, Coal, criteria pollutnats, jeff haseltine, mercury, mulit county coalition, neil carman, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, TCEQ, tenaska coal plant, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water availability, Water Quality, west texas on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Citizens aware of extreme drought conditions point to potential serious conflict over water if coal plant were built (Abilene) – The Multi-County Coalition, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and individuals from the West Texas areas of Sweetwater and Abilene raised questions about how a proposed Tenaska coal plant would affect water availability and water quantity in [...]

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Sunday Morning Sequestration Revelation

Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Carbon Dioxide, carbon sequestration, Coal, mercury, pollution, sweetwater on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out the following letter to the editor from the Abilene Reporter News. Turns out a local resident of Sweetwater recently had a revelation about the nature of coal and carbon sequestration. Interesting theory… Why are we digging up stuff God wants buried? I believe that God has a purpose for coal, and it’s up [...]

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Good Bills Being Heard in House Environmental Reg

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged air pollution, capitol, clean air act, coal combustion waste, committee hearing, Global Warming, hb 1450, hb 3422, hb 3428, hb 557, hb 769, house environmental regulation, industrial waste, lon burnam, mercury, ozone, Public Citizen, rep. burnam, rep. hernandez, rep. rodriguez, Texas, texas state capitol on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In addition to Lon Burnam’s HB 3423, there are five other good bills that will be heard in the House Environmental Regulation Committee this Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 10:30 am or upon adjournment of the House in the Capital extension – Hearing room E1.014. We are incouraging everyone who has a few minutes to [...]

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