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Green-up Your Life! Flushing trees down the toilet
By Kirsten Bokenkamp From office paper, to toilet paper, paper towels, paper coffee cups, newspapers, paper bags, magazines and catalogs, notebooks, napkins, and packaging, we cannot escape our...
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TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant
The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a...
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Dallas Morning News Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules
Great editorial in the Dallas Morning News this weekend. We couldn’t agree more Editorial: Texas, a state of denial on pollution rules To the surprise of no one, the Environmental Protection Agency...
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Attention: Green businesses and Austinites!
If you were as frustrated as I was watching world leaders dither in Copenhagen while the Earth heats up and island nations continue making evacuation plans, there is good news on the horizon for...
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Obama announces new government goal for reducing greenhouse gases: 28% by 2020
Also cross-posted at our Energy Blog: President Obama announced this morning he was putting the government on a low carbon diet. Through a series of initiatives, he hopes to decrease energy consumption...
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Public Citizen and Sierra Club Issue Citation to Governor Perry for...
Perry Flaunts State, Federal Law in EPA Lawsuit Statement from Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office and Ken Kramer, director of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club This...
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Texas State Climatologist Disagrees with Gov Perry, AG Abbott, and Ag Comm...
You may have seen the political bloviating earlier this week when Governor Perry announced he would sue the EPA over their endangerment finding on CO2. Or that Attorney General Greg Abbott signed on,...
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Dallas Morning News Editorial: Editorial: Clean air vs. jobs is a false choice
This editorial from the Dallas Morning News is a little bit old news, responding to Governor Perry’s lawsuit against the EPA’s endangerment finding about carbon dioxide, BUT I really like the message...
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On global warming, the science is solid
Last weekend professors and scientists from four major Texas universities joined forces to write an editorial in the Houston Chronicle defending the science of global warming from skeptics and deniers....
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By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of Schedule, Texas Shows...
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office We are thrilled – but not surprised – that because of a growth spurt in the development of wind energy, Texas has met its...
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White Stallion Town Hall Meeting
This footage is of the town hall event that was held in Bay City in April. Though invited, White Stallion representatives refused to show up to answer questions from the public. Some Bay City...
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TCEQ Decides That Regulating Pollution Isn’t Their Job
Yesterday the TCEQ remanded the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas petroleum-coke plant back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings. What they didn’t do is require the facility to do what’s...
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TCEQ Proves Incompetent Once Again, Approves White Stallion Coal Plant
Today the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continued their decades-long campaign of ineptitude and inadequacy as they approved the air quality permit for the White Stallion Coal Plant...
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Austin Energy offers consumers assistance with charging stations for their...
In the coming weeks you might notice a sleek, new Nissan LEAF or Chevy Volt cruising past you on the road. Many of the major car companies are introducing electric, plug-in vehicles (EVs) designed for...
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To Beef or Not to Beef: The Cattle Industry is Trampling All Over Our...
The next time you bite into that double quarter-pounder with cheese, you may want to think twice about it. Literally though, once for your health and once for Mother Nature dearest. The livestock and...
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The Texas Livestock Industry: Are our cows at risk?
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...
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Your Grocery Bill and the Amazon Rainforest: What’s the Big Deal?
Could your trip down to the neighborhood meat market, or your favorite burger joint be contributing to the demise of the Amazon rainforest? Cattle ranching in Brazil is the leading cause of...
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Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and...
Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her...
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EPA Sets First Limits on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. “Today we’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the...
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A new scientific study for climate change deniers to bash
MSNBC reports that a scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday concluded that during the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), global temperatures rose after...
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