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The Texas Livestock Industry: Are our cows at risk?

Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Americans tend to think of climate change as a ‘down the road’ future phenomenon. But the fact of the matter is that although the world isn’t coming to an end tomorrow, we are being impacted by climate change, and much more than we may think.  We may feel like we don’t know anyone dealing with [...]

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Texans for Lots of Radiation bring attention to nuclear-waste kingpin’s donations to Texans for Lawsuit Reform

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , , on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Texans for Lots of Radiation (TLR too) brought attention to the record donations raised by Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) PAC ($6.9 million in the 2010 election cycle) with help from its No. 1 donor: nuclear-waste kingpin Harold Simmons. To reduce the cost of negligently harming other people, the PAC took 12 cents of every [...]

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Middle East crisis could impact the global economy. How will the effects be felt in Texas?

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In a piece by John W. Schoen, senior producer at MSNBC, he leads with: As the turmoil in the Middle East spreads to Libya, a major oil producer, the shockwaves of Arab unrest are reverberating through the global oil supply chain – and threatening to spill over into the global economy.  Click here to read [...]

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EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , on January 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »

The much anticipated hearing between the Environmental Protection Agency and Texas regarding the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will occur this morning in Dallas, Texas.  The hearing is set to begin at 10:00 AM and is expected to continue through 7:00 PM this evening.  The hearing will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the [...]

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Net Metering Policies in Texas

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This past summer, interns in Public Citizen‘s Texas office were busy calling utility companies (including rural electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities) to find out what their policies were on net-metering.  Net-metering is an arrangement by which excess renewable electricity produced by consumers who own (generally small) renewable energy facilities, such as wind, solar power or home fuel cells, [...]

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Don’t you pour radioactive waste on my blue suede shoes

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , on January 5, 2011 | 10 Comments »

The Texas Low-level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (TLLRWDCC) approved rules yesterday that pave the way for 36 states to export low-level radioactive waste to a remote landfill along the Texas-New Mexico border. The 5-2 vote by the TLLRWDCC came after last-minute legal maneuvering on Monday failed to delay the meeting when a federal judge threw [...]

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Correction and Update: VOTE on Radioactive Waste NOT Halted

Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged , , , , , , on January 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »

 UPDATE: Judge Sam Sparks of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas just dismissed the case to enjoin the Compact Commission meeting tomorrow, saying while he was concerned about the issue of citizen’s ability to participate fully, he did not have jurisdiction to enjoin the meeting, and threw the whole case out allowing [...]

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Judge orders halt to Compact Commission meeting: did opponents of expansion of waste dump just win?

Posted in Radioactive Waste, tagged , , on December 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

UPDATE:  Hope you’ve been keeping an eye on this, but just needed to point out there have been major developments on this which make this post now completely false.  We don’t believe in just dumping things down the memory hole here, but do believe in making sure we get things right.  The updates are all [...]

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Texas Railroad Commission – The biggest bang for your buck – if you are with the fossil fuel industry

Posted in Sunset, tagged , , on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Concurrent with Public Citizen‘s release of its report - Drilling for Dollars: How Big Money Has a Big Influence at the Railroad Commission, which details how fundraising by incumbents increased 688 percent between 2000 and 2008 with the biggest driver of the increase donations from individuals associated with the fossil fuel industries – the same industries the [...]

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Join us at the 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party next week

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t already pre-registered to celebrate the holidays at the 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party, do so now.  It is coming up soon and this year it is hosted by 10 great organizations. Fiesta Gardens  (2100 Jesse E. Segovia St., Austin, TX 78702) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 from 5:30pm-9:30pm Registration:  Pre-Registration ONLY for this Event (No Cash [...]

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5th Circuit says Sandy Creek does not comply with Clean Air Act

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Toxics, tagged , , , , , on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals awarded a major victory to Public Citizen and Sierra Club in their long standing efforts to block the Sandy Creek coal plant near Waco when it ruled that developers improperly started construction without adequate clearance under the federal Clean Air Act. The court overturned a district court ruling saying the developers [...]

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TCEQ Sunset Town Halls – Victoria

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Texans living around the Victoria region attended a town hall in September to express their concerns about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on a number of different issues, including the proposed White Stallion coal plant in Bay City. On the panel were Sunset Commission Chairman Sen. Glenn Hegar, former TCEQ commissioner Larry Soward, [...]

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Public Citizen’s website or Tom Delay on trial yesterday?

Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, tagged , , , , , , , on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As the Tom Delay trial got underway, the State’s first two witnesses were Craig McDonald, a former Public Citizen Texas director and now the executive director for Texans for Public Justice, and Austin attorney Fred Lewis, both of whom the defense characterized as being from the left end of the political spectrum which they attempted [...]

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The Rally to Restore Sanity . . . What was it all about?

Posted in Good Government, tagged , , , on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Jon Stewart explains what the Rally to Restore Sanity is about in his speech at the rally in DC. I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith. Or people of activism or to look down our noses at [...]

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Rally to Restore Sanity in Austin

Posted in Global Warming, Good Government, Renewables, tagged , , , , , , on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Come join us tomorrow, Saturday morning, for a satellite rally of John Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” which is happening in Washington D.C. The festivities start at 11am and go till 2pm (a march against the death penalty starts at 3).

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