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Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Department Signoff

Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Tarsands, tagged Keystone Pipeline, Texas, transcanada, United States, United States Department of State on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit amidst concerns about bias, conflicts of interest, and environmental [...]

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NRC’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS CHANGES TO REACTOR SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States on July 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Japan Task Force has proposed improvements in areas ranging from loss of power to earthquakes, flooding, spent fuel pools, venting and preparedness, and said a “patchwork of regulatory requirements” developed “piece-by-piece over the decades” should be replaced with a “logical, systematic and coherent regulatory framework” to further bolster reactor safety in [...]

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The Korea Trade Deal in Two Minutes

Posted in Global Warming, tagged chamber of commerce, Global Trade Watch, Korea, North American Free Trade Agreement, North Korea, United States on June 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Check out this two-minute film from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch about the job-killing NAFTA-style Korea trade deal. Or, if film isn’t your thing, read the script below. It is replete with links to images and underlying documents. And, if this makes you mad, do something about it. Click here to go to our action [...]

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Japanese nuclear disaster demands a re-examination of US nuclear policy

Posted in Nuclear, tagged Fukushima, japan, loan guarantee, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States on March 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The tragic events unfolding in Japan demand a re-examination of U.S. nuclear policy. While stocks in nuclear plummet and nuclear industry lobbyists scramble on Capitol Hill to shore up support for massive federal subsidies to kick-start the stagnate industry, concerns regarding the existing aging fleet are surfacing and should be heeded. Click here to read [...]

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The Story of Electronics online film release coming

Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, recycling, Toxics, tagged Business, Electronic waste, Electronics, environment, recycling, The Story of Stuff, United States, Waste Management on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

A new online film, the “Story of Electronics”, will be released on Tues, November 9. This is the newest in the series of the excellent, user-friendly Story of Stuff web-films about excessive consumerism and waste. The Story of Electronics tells the story of how electronics are really “designed for the dump” and not made to [...]

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Election spending by outside groups is concentrated and hidden, new Public Citizen analysis shows

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged citizens united, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Democratic Party (United States), federal election commission, Public Citizen, republicans, Supreme Court of the United States, United States on October 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Cross-posted from our mother blog at CitizenVox. We don’t normally cross-post much because we’d prefer you to read their blog just as much as ours, but if you’re not, please add them to your rss feed now! Of the $176.1 million spent by outside groups using large, often undisclosed contributions to influence the current elections, [...]

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Three steps forward, two steps back on campaign finance in Congress today

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged charlie gonzalez, Coffee Party, Coffee Party livestream convention, Congress, DISCLOSE Act, Eric Byler, facebook, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, Lawrence Lessig, Mark McKinnon, politics, United States on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the US House Administration Committee voted the Fair Elections Now Act out of committee. San Antonio Representative Charlie Gonzalez cast a decisive vote in favor of the bill, putting a bill that would give optional public financing to all Congressional candidates for further than it has ever gone before. Tell Charlie Gonzalez how you [...]

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EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible Permits Program

Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged Air Quality, clean air act, Federal Government, federal register, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that the EPA started questioning [...]

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State Bar to hold public hearings about proposed rules for lawyers

Posted in Global Warming, Good Government, tagged Bar association, Law, Lawyer, Organizations, public citizen texas, State Bar of Texas, Supreme Court of the United States, Texas, United States on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In a message from the State Bar President Terry Tottenham to members of the Bar, he reminds attorney’s in this State that there are important changes being considered to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct (TDRPC) and that the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors is conducting a series of public education hearings on proposed amendments [...]

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