TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT), and thanks to the efforts of [...]
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TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Comments to EPA on New Ozone Attainment Standard – Dallas, March 16, 2010
Posted in Global Warming, tagged attainment, dallas, downwinders at risk, EPA, o3, ozone, ozone standard, pollution, Public Citizen, region 6, Sierra Club, smog, standard, Texas on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On March 16, 2010 Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Downwinders At Risk, Texas Campaign for the Environment and other concerned environmental organizations and individuals held a public meeting to submit comments to the EPA regarding their newly proposed ozone standard. State representatives and staff from Region 6 of the EPA were there to hear comments. These [...]
Energy Generation Plan Presented to Austin City Council
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Air Quality, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, cap and reduction, Clean Energy, climate protection plan, electric utility commission, emissions reductions, Energy Efficiency, fayette coal plant, generation plan, green jobs, pollution, Public Citizen, renewable energy, renewable energy credits, resource management commission, Roger Duncan, solar, Texas, town hall, wind on February 4, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Last Thursday Austin Energy General Manager Roger Duncan briefed Austin City Council on the utility’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan. This plan is the culmination of 18 months of input from the public, the creation of a generation resource task force of various stakeholders to review various energy plans and make recommendations, and support and [...]
Dallas Morning News Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules
Posted in Toxics, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, Dallas Morning News, editorial, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, governor rick perry, ozone, pollution, smog, Texas on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Great editorial in the Dallas Morning News this weekend. We couldn’t agree more Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules To the surprise of no one, the Environmental Protection Agency announced tougher ozone limits this week. The move to tighten pollution standards had long been anticipated as evidence mounted to illustrate the serious [...]
Texas Roll Beyond Coal Tour Headed Your Way
Posted in Coal, tagged clean air act, Coal Plant Permitting Process, coal tour, EPA, pollution, public citizen texas, Sierra Club, TCEQ on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week Public Citizen Texas and the Sierra Club are launching a statewide media tour of Texas coal plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently rejected key aspects of the air permitting plan of Texas’ regulatory agency — the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and called for proper enforcement of the Clean Air Act [...]
Personal Actions to Save the World: Thoughts for You the Consumer
Posted in Consumers, tagged Activism, Alaska, CAFO, Confined Animal Feeding Operation, consumer, Consumer Activism, Ecopledge, environment, Local, Mayor's climate agreement, PIRG, pollution, Product on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maybe I am underestimating the reach of this blog, but I am guessing that if your are reading this you probably a pretty well- educated American (if not, you certainly are an English speaker, and are probably from a western country — but most likely yer from Texas), who has the ability to access a [...]
Hogwash: Confined Animal Feeding Operations
Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Agriculture, antibiotics, CAFO, Confined Animal Feeding Operation, Confinements, environment, Factory Farm, FarM Bill, Hog Factory, Manure, Pfisteria, Pigs, pollution, Runoff, Subsidies, Texas, Water Pollution, Water Quality on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would like to discuss an issue that has been important to me for several years, but does not get much attention outside the Midwest or agriculture heavy states like North Carolina. In these states much of the landscape is covered by large indoor animal feeding units. These confinements, or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS), [...]
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 [...]
Go Solar: Make Utilities Give Consumers a Fair Price for Surplus Electricity
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged buy back rates, electric rates, environment texas, foreign oil, gallego, house state affairs committee, lubbock, luke metzger, net metering, pollution, public utilities commission of texas, PUCT, shallowater high school, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, solomons, Texas, texas house, Texas Legislature, texas senate, TXU on May 11, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Thanks to Luke Metzger at the Environment Texas blog for this take on pending net metering legislation (read: making sure folks with solar panels get paid back for the excess energy they produce): On Monday, the Texas House will decide whether to promote solar energy by requiring utilities to pay consumers fair prices for surplus [...]
We’ve got our first solar bill!
Posted in Renewables, tagged fraser, green jobs, HOAs, pollution, sb 545, solar, Solar Incentives on April 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fraser’s solar bill, SB 545, just passed out of the Senate floor with a vote of 26 to 4. SB 545 will: Build our emerging renewable technologies Create jobs Lower electric costs in the long term Reduce pollution Assure fair prices for excess electricity generated by distributive renewable energy sources; and Allow new home buyers [...]
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