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What is Environmental Justice and Why did the EPA sing, “Free At Last”

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Reprinted with permission from Christopher Searles blog – http://chrissearles.blogspot.com/ In January of 2011 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights Affirmative Employment and Diversity at an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I am old to enough to have witnessed and experienced the remarkable progress that’s [...]

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DFW Air Quality Standards – EPA Public Comments Sought

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA has published a federal register notice to solicit public comments on their ozone designation recommendations to the states.  This comment period closes on January 19th and we have included the notice for information on where and how to submit your comments. Public Citizen and Sierra Club believe the inclusion of Freestone, Limestone, McClennan, [...]

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US environmental authorities have declared for the first time that fracking may be to blame for groundwater pollution.

Posted in Water, tagged , , , on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

A draft finding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could have a chilling effect on states trying to determine how to regulate the process. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pumping pressurised water, sand and chemicals underground to open fissures and improve the flow of oil or gas to the surface. The EPA found that [...]

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Polluters complain to Congress about new EPA rules, but tell SEC their bottom line will be fine.

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , on November 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Associated Press, across the land, large and small polluters have regaled Republican-led congressional committees with dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the EPA succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators and investors conveys less gloom and uncertainty. The Associated Press compared [...]

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EPA issues first Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the Texas Energy Report, the EPA has issued its first greenhouse gas permit in Texas with the TCEQ refusing to issue permits to LCRA or others The Lower Colorado River Authority received the first Texas Greenhouse Gas permit as it upgrades a 37-year-old generating unit in Llano County to a more efficient natural [...]

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Effort to kill the CSAPR in the US Senate fails

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The U.S. Senate killed Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Kentucky) effort last week to strike down the EPA’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule regulating emissions that blow across state lines, thanks in part to your calls and emails. The measure died on a 41-56 vote with Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison voting for the [...]

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North Texas beats Houston for worst air quality in the State

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , , , , on November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In the 2011 ozone season, North Texas pushed ahead of Houston in the battle for the worst air quality in the state. Both metro areas have significant pollution problems, and both continue to exceed federal ozone limits. Dallas-Fort Worth now has the distinction of beating the Bayou City as the former longtime state champ, and [...]

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Texas Politics weigh in on the cross state pollution rule once again

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The States Attorney general is leaping into the environmental fray once again with a filing with the federal appeals court to review the new EPA regulations while the Texas house state affairs hold hearings today, but Governors Perry’s attorney and chief is taking it one step farther filing against  four different rules according to the [...]

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Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA smog rules, TarSands pipeline, drought/fires edition

Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Tarsands, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The wildfires, Obama’s cave-in on the EPA’s smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question– Why does Rice play Texas? And how does this relate to clean air, climate change, and a switch to a clean energy economy?

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All the world’s a “fracking” stage, and all the men and women merely players

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Seems like everyone is jumping onto the “Fracking” bandwagon.  In an earlier blog we talked about the US Department of Energy’s entrance into the “Fracking” fray with Secretary Steven Chu appointing an Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas, led by former CIA director John Deutch, who plan to have recommendations on the table in [...]

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DOE weighing in on the fracking debate

Posted in Air Quality, tagged , , , on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu may play a role in sorting out the entangled mess of misinformation and spin about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. U.S. gas producers are looking to ramp up industrialization in rural areas outside of some of the nation’s largest cities.  Secretary Chu has indicated that the White [...]

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Coal ash contaminates groundwater at some TVA power plants

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged , on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Office of Inspector General found that the groundwater at some coal ash sites is contaminated with arsenic and other toxic pollutants and is a health hazard. Levels at the Gallatin plant site in Sumner County and at the Cumberland site, 50 miles northwest of Nashville, are at [...]

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A Perry EPA, brrrrr . . . cold shivers down my spine

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The EPA under Perry . . . what would that look like?  I don’t know about you, but that thought sends cold shivers down my spine, even on a 104 degree day. The Austin American Statesman takes a look at what the EPA might become with a Perry White House.  Public Citizen’s own “Smitty” weighs [...]

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New EPA standards for coal plant emissions already working to clear our skies

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged , , , on July 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Here’s some great news! With EPA tightening the standards for coal plant emissions, Energy Future Holdings, the parent company of Luminant (formerly TXU) and the major electric power provider for much of North and West Texas, is considering how to respond to new federal clean-air regulations.  Yesterday they announced they will mothball 3 coal plants [...]

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Flex permit companies moving toward compliance with federal standards

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that all `flexible permit’ companies in Texas have agreed to apply for approved air permits, helping to achieve clean air in the state and providing for regulatory certainty. Under the Texas flexible permit rule, certain industries were allowed an exemption from having to disclose pollution for each individual smokestack [...]

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