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Texas and EPA: Going to battle over waste water permits now?

Posted in TCEQ, tagged Rick Perry, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, water permits, Water Quality on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publically demanded that Texas immediately take steps to reissue Clean Water Act permits to some 80 facilities that have been operating without the necessary paperwork. Not pleased with what they felt was a decision to, “ jump the gun prematurely with this notice,” the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [...]

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Radiation in Houston’s Tap Water Compounded by TCEQ ‘lowballing’ radiation scores in drinking water throughout Texas

Posted in Radiation, tagged houston, Radiation, TCEQ, Water Quality on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

In a three part story, KHOU-TV reports on a four-month investigation into radioactive contaminants in the Houston area drinking water. Revelations that came to light shows hundreds of water providers around the Gulf Coast region are providing their customers with drinking water that contains radioactive contaminants that raise health risks, according to state lab results [...]

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GasLand: A Must Watch Documentary

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, solar, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, documentary, drinking water, faucet on fire, fracking, gasland, HBO, HBO Documentaries, josh fox, Larry King, Larry King Live, natural gas drilling, oil and gas wells, pipe explosion, rig explosion, T. Boone Pickens, water, water on fire, Water Pollution, Water Quality on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A few days ago, Larry King interviewed T. Boone Pickens and if you were watching it, you heard him condemn the spill and the US dependence on oil then he raved about natural gas and how safe it is to drill for it. Pickens is not the first. Many have claimed that natural gas is [...]

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West Texans Question How Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Would Affect Water Availability and Water Quality

Posted in Coal, Toxics, tagged abilene texas, city of abilene, Coal, criteria pollutnats, jeff haseltine, mercury, mulit county coalition, neil carman, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, TCEQ, tenaska coal plant, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water availability, Water Quality, west texas on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Citizens aware of extreme drought conditions point to potential serious conflict over water if coal plant were built (Abilene) – The Multi-County Coalition, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and individuals from the West Texas areas of Sweetwater and Abilene raised questions about how a proposed Tenaska coal plant would affect water availability and water quantity in [...]

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Citizens Oppose South Texas Project Expansion before Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged aircraft impacts, atomic safety and licensing board, bay city, bay city civic center, bob eye, clarence johnson, cola, colorado river, combined operating license application, CPS Energy, drought, economic recession, glenrose engineering, groundwater, high level radioactive waste, lauren ross, NRC, nuclear expansion, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, oral hearing, petition to intervene, Public Citizen, radioactive waste, robert v. eye, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, South Texas Project, stare, steven chu, storage, susan dancer, Texas, Water Quality, yucca mountain on June 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Oral Hearing Set for June 23rd-June 24th in Bay City, TX Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors in Texas continues. On June 23rd-24th an oral hearing will be held before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on the Citizens’ Petition to Intervene in South Texas Project (STP) Nuclear Power Plant Units 3 [...]

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Hogwash: Confined Animal Feeding Operations

Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Agriculture, antibiotics, CAFO, Confined Animal Feeding Operation, Confinements, environment, Factory Farm, FarM Bill, Hog Factory, Manure, Pfisteria, Pigs, pollution, Runoff, Subsidies, Texas, Water Pollution, Water Quality on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I would like to discuss an issue that has been important to me for several years, but does not get much attention outside the Midwest or agriculture heavy states like North Carolina. In these states much of the landscape is covered by large indoor animal feeding units. These confinements, or Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS), [...]

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