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Join Us Sunday to Save Lake Travis

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Austin music, Coal, power plants, water on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

October 10th Benefit to Save Lake Travis www.PowerPlantsSuck.org For more information about the issue read about it in an earlier blog!

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EPA Should Use Clean Air Act to Address Climate Change

Posted in Global Warming, tagged clean air act, climate change, Coal, copenhagen, corporate interest, energy program, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, greenhouse gas emissions, house of representatives, oil refineries, polluters, power plants, Public Citizen, tyson slocum on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program *Note: Tyson Slocum is delivered this statement today at a public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing industrial facilities under the Clean Air Act. As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, [...]

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Meet Smitty, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american changemaker, campaigns for people, Clean Water Action, environmental hero, gary, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, greenwashing, indiana, nuclear plants, power plants, public citizen texas, sustainlane, texans for public justice, texas ratepayer's organization to save energy, Tom "Smitty" Smith, valparaiso university on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SustainLane, an on-line “people powered sustainability guide”, recently wrote an in-depth profile piece on Public Citizen’s own Tom “Smitty” Smith. For an excellent glimpse of the man behind the machine, our very own white-hat-wearing fearless leader and official “American Changemaker,” check out the following: ‘Smitty’ Wrangles Texans for Environmental Battles by Amy Linn, SustainLane Staff [...]

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EPA to Reconsider Standards for Particulate Matter

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged appeals court, diesel engines, galveston-houston association for smog prevention, ghasp, houston chronicle, matthew tejada, New York Times, particulate matter, PM, power plants, soot, steven johnson on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A federal appeals court yesterday ordered the EPA to reconsider its standards for pollutants, particularly particulate matter (PM). Fine particulates, such as soot, have been linked to premature death, asthma, lung cancer, and heart disease. Furthermore, black carbon soot is a major greenhouse player, as it absorbs and then radiates massive amounts of heat back [...]

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