Rick Perry’s latest campaign cash report shows Harold Simmons has just given Perry another $250,000 at the same time that he’s seeking permission to expand his Andrews County radioactive waste dump so 36 other states can dump their “low-level” radioactive waste right here in Texas. This brings Simmons’ contributions to Perry up to almost $900,000. Simmons’ [...]
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Radioactive waste dump owner forks over another quarter million dollars to Perry
Posted in Nuclear, tagged campaign contributions, influence pedaling, nuclear waste, perry, radioactive waste, Simmons, WCS on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Could Texas’ Continued Defiance of EPA on Regulation of Greenhouse Gases Be Costly Posturing?
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged climate change, co2, Coal, EPA, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, perry, public citizen texas on August 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Public Citizen Calls For A Moratorium On Permitting All New Sources Of Greenhouse Gases Until Texas Gets Plan In Place EPA issued proposed rules today that will require Texas to modify its state implementation plan to cover Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). If Texas does not, then EPA is proposing a federal implementation plan (FIP) that [...]
Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting controversy
Posted in Good Government, Sunset, tagged emissions, EPA, glenn shankle, Mark Vickery, Oak Grove, perry, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas, waste control specialists, WCS on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Region 6 Administrator, Al [...]
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