Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is seeking several amendments to its Radioactive Material License # R04100 from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Five of the amendments request design changes to the Compact Waste Disposal Facility (CWF) and the Federal Waste Facility (FWF) for commercial and federal low-level radiactive waste disposal. The other two amendment [...]
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Radioactive waste dump seeking amendment to its license
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, Water, tagged environment, radipactove waste, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, waste control specialists, WCS on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Perry gets another chance to get the TLLRWDC Commission just right for Simmon’s WCS radioactive waste dump
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County Texas, Harold Simmons, Rick Perry, Texas, waste control specialists on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Gov. Rick Perry has replaced all six of the Texas commissioners who sit on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission reappointing only two previously serving commissioner. The TLLRWDCC commissioner terms were modified by Senate Bill 1605 as part of the 82nd Legislature giving Perry the ability to replace commissioners whose positions he didn’t [...]
West Texas – The new radioactive waste frontier
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County Texas, EnergySolutions, radioactive waste, Texas, waste control specialists on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Fox news station in Salt Lake City, UT, controversy has arisen about EnergySolutions’ plans to dispose of what they call blended radioactive waste at its Clive Facility in the west desert of Utah. There are three classifications of waste: A, B and C, all radioactive. Only the lowest level, type A, is [...]
Radioactive Waste Commission meeting on August 20th
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged radioactive waste, Texas, waste control specialists on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will meet Saturday, August 20, 2011, at 10:30 AM in the James Roberts Center, 855 Hwy 176 East, Andrews, TX 79714. Don’t know yet what they will have on their agenda, but they say it will be posted in the Texas Register and on the Commission website when [...]
Simmons’ Cronies
Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, Toxics, tagged environment, Harold Simmons, nuclear waste, texans for public justice, The Texas Solution, Toxic Waste, waste control specialists on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
All rights reserved by Public Citizen Texas Infamously dubbed by Dallas Magazine “Dallas’ Most Evil Genius”, socialite and energy tycoon Harold Simmons is no stranger to Texas lobbying. As this blog previously reported in January, Simmons has contributed $1.12 million from 2001 to September 2010 to Rick Perry significantly increasing his contributions between 6/25/2009 and [...]
Radioactive Waste? ‘No’ Vote on SB 1504
Posted in Global Warming, tagged HB 1504, radioactive waste, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, waste control specialists on May 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Senate Bill 1504 (by Seliger: R-Amarillo and Hinojosa: D-McAllen) the riskiest bill for the environment this session will be heard on the Texas house floor on Tuesday, May 17th. If passed in its current form, the risks include: Risk that we won’t have enough space for our own waste Risk of an unfunded taxpayer liability [...]
Pray for rain, pray for no radioactive waste transport accidents
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged radioactive waste, Rick Perry, Texas, Volunteer fire department, waste control specialists, Wildfire on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In spite of, Governor Rick Perry’s designation of this past Easter weekend as official days of prayer for rain, Texas is expected to break its yearly record for the number of acres burned by wildfires, with officials warning that today through Wednesday would see a high risk of fresh blazes. 2006 set the previous record of [...]
Texas may get a lump of radioactive waste in their stocking if billionaire donor to Governor Perry has his way
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County waste dump, Grinch, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, waste control specialists, WCS on December 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
UPDATED: Thanks to everyone who commented! We’ll have a blog wrapup/ news release ASAP. VIDEO FROM OUR PRESS CONFERENCE ! And check our flikr photostream here on the blog for non moving pictures from this morning, if that’s more your thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark, already in progress. ORIGINAL POST: [...]
Federal Investigation of Texas’ Radioactive Waste Dump Urged
Posted in Nuclear, tagged environmental, EPA, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear waste, public citizen texas, TCEQ, waste control specialists, WCS on August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
NRC and EPA called upon to examine radioactive waste site and licensing process, risks of groundwater contamination and potential risks to the Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states AUSTIN – Environmental groups today asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate the radioactive waste storage and [...]
Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting controversy
Posted in Good Government, Sunset, tagged emissions, EPA, glenn shankle, Mark Vickery, Oak Grove, perry, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas, waste control specialists, WCS on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Region 6 Administrator, Al [...]
Prevent Texas from Becoming the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Nuclear, tagged andrews county, Austin, compact commission, Nuclear, public citizen texas, state district court, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas low level radioactive waste dump, waste control specialists on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month, the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will hear feedback on a proposed rule allowing the importation of so-called low-level radioactive waste into Texas from across the nation. Under the proposed rules Waste Control Specialists (WCS) would be allowed to import additional radioactive waste from other areas of the country and [...]
Protect Texas from Becoming Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dump
Posted in Good Government, Nuclear, tagged andrews county, Arjun Makhijani, compact commission, environment texas, fort worth, import/export rule, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, low level radioactive waste disposal compact commission, no bonds for billionaires, nuclear information and resource service, open meetings act, Public Citizen, public radio, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, state capitol, Texas, vermont, waste control specialists, we can on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SEED Coalition opposes any radioactive waste dumping in Texas, but at minimum seeks to prevent our state from receiving waste from more than just the two Compact States and becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump. With support from Public Citizen, Environment Texas and Nuclear Information and Resource Service and other groups, they will submit comments [...]
Don’t Let Texas Become the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dumping Ground
Posted in Nuclear, tagged andrews county, aquifers, compact commission, corruption, dumping ground, glenn shankle, good to glow, governor perry, groundwater, inadequate site, low level radioactive waste, no bonds for billionaires, Nuclear Power, Nuke Free Texas, nukes, politics, Public Citizen, rad waste, radioactive contamination, radioactive waste dump, save the ogallalaa aquifer, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, Texas, texas capitol, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas compact commission stakeholder meeting, vermont, waste control specialists, WCS, west texas on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Join us next Thursday, December 10th to help stop Texas from becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump! Please Come: Texas Compact Commission Stakeholder Meeting Thursday, December 10th at 9am Texas Capitol, Extension Auditorium, E1.004 You are invited to attend the press conference as well, held by the SEED Coalition, Public Citizen, and Sierra Club, on [...]
Public Citizen Texas Honors Texas’ Outstanding Public Servants
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 25th anniversary, amarillo, Austin American-Statesman, austin chronicle, austin city council, Austin Energy, awards, claudia grisales, clean economy coalition, corpus christi, david swinford, democracy, doug lewin, environmental journalism, fort worth, gerry sansing, glenn lewis, green building program, greenchoice, Greg Harman, health, las brisas coal plant, lifetime achievement award, lon burnam, pedernales electric cooperative, Public Citizen, rafael anchia, Rodney Ellis, safety, San Antonio, san antonio current, tarrant county, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas outstanding public service, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Victoria, waste control specialists, wendy davis, wes stafford, whistleblower, wind warrior award on November 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
AUSTIN – Public Citizen Texas will be honoring the recipients of this year’s Texas Outstanding Public Service (TOPS) Awards at the organization’s 25th anniversary dinner today. The awardees are local visionaries, recognized experts and celebrated advocates who have aided in the effort to help Texas realize a more environmentally conscious and sustainable energy future. Those [...]
Andrews County: A Radioactive Risk for West Texas
Posted in Nuclear, Toxics, tagged andrews county, Capitol Annex, Cyrus Reed, diane d'arrigo, dump, forrest wilder, Karen Hadden, nirs, Nuclear, nuclear information and resource service, nuclear waste, Odessa, panhandle, rose gardner, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, TCEQ, terry burns, texas observer, Vince Leibowitz, waste control specialists on March 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been remiss in my duties as Blog Lady because I haven’t told you anything about the slated Andrews County nuclear waste dump. Oh, you hadn’t heard? TCEQ approved a “low-level” radioactive dump out in the lower panhandle. There wasn’t a contested case hearing — and citizens of Eunice, New Mexico, the closest town [...]
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