What are the Pollution Impacts of the New Liquified Natural Gas Plant...
If you're already hosting the three or four largest single sources of air pollution in the entire region you need new large industrial sources of crap like a hole in the head. Likewise, if you've...
View ArticleA Barnett Shale Manifesto…From Austin
Sometimes it takes a perspective above the grind of trench warfare to give you a better sense of what the entire battlefield looks like. That's what UT Law Professor Rachel Rawlins has done for...
View ArticleAnother Chapter of “Why Don’t We See This in Midlothian?”
Cement plants are among the world's largest sources of CO2. In order to reduce their carbon footprints, either voluntarily or to comply with new environmental regulations, as well as make a buck,...
View ArticleWe Won a Small Victory – Now Come Take Advantage of It
This is why citizen participation matters. Last week, local officials were balking at reserving a slot at next Thursday's regional air planning meeting for a presentation by UNT researchers on how gas...
View ArticleHuman-Induced Earthquakes and Cooking the Planet: We’re Living the Next...
"Environmentalism" as a cause in America has its roots in the wilderness, the "otherness" a person can discover when he or she is separated from their own kind and put among crowds of the planet's...
View ArticleBig Green Discovers It Needs More Than A DC Office to Win
In 2010, there was a very large and coordinated push by the nation's largest environmental groups and President Obama to get climate change legislation through Congress. Even with a...
View ArticleShow Me the Money: Putting a Dollar Value on Climate Change
How do you monetize a human life? How about when that life is impaired with an illness? What's it worth to you not having to rush your child to the emergency room when they're turning blue during an...
View ArticleStudy: Climate Change Will Likely Increase DFW Smog
Just last week at the June regional air quality planning meeting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was bemoaning the fact that the weather too often determines how bad an "ozone season"...
View ArticleAsk the State and Holcim To Finally Give DFW “the Holy Grail” of Cement...
Swiss-based Holcim Cement is requesting a permit amendment to add new piece of pollution control equipment to its Midlothian cement plant, one of three cement plants that make the city the "Cement...
View ArticleAfter a 14-year Campaign, State-of-the-Art Pollution Control Finally Coming...
(Midlothian) After a 14-year effort by local citizens, Holcim US Inc. is applying for a permit to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to install a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) unit in...
View ArticleBoth Gas Industry Spinmeister and Mansfield Compressor Spew During Thursday’s...
There was at least one truth uttered by Steve Everley, the professional PR spokesperson for Energy in Depth, itself the PR arm of the Gas Industry, during his testimony at last Thursday's EPA ozone...
View ArticleNot A Surprise: Pollution Reduction Helps Low Income Populations
One of the most insincere and transparent memes polluters use these days is their sudden concern for the incomes fo poor folks if government forces them to reduce their pollution (we're looking at you...
View ArticleReady to Fight Back and Win? Downwinders is about to launch its most...
Mercifully, the 2015 Texas Legislative Session is almost over. Since January we've seen cities stripped of their traditional zoning power over oil and gas facilities, citizens' ability to challenge...
View ArticleExpect Obama’s New CO2 Plan to Close Those Nasty East Texas Coal Plants? Don’t.
By this point, most of you will have been inundated with opinions and factoids about what President Obama's new "Clean Power Plan" will and won't do about climate change. Bottom Line: while it sets a...
View ArticleThe Fastest Way to Get Big Cuts in Climate Change Pollution? A Good DFW...
Public Hearing 6:30 pm Thursday January 21st 616 Six Flags Drive Arlington When polluters cut smog pollution, they cut a lot of other kinds of pollution as well, including climate-damaging gases...
View ArticleNext Week: Two Events Put DFW Greens on the Front Lines of Change…Again
GET OUT OF YOUR RUT AND JOIN THE FIGHT! MONDAY, MAY 23rd 9am Dallas City Hall 1500 Marilla Downtown Dallas Room 6ES (6th Floor, South) Dallas City Council's Quality of Life Committee...
View ArticleHEFTY! HEFTY! HEFTY! is TOXIC! TOXIC! TOXIC!
Anti-Litter Group “Keep America Beautiful” Teams-Up with Dow and Hefty to Burn Plastic Bags Full of Plastic Garbage in Cement Kilns And They Want To Do It Here… We’ve been warning you for a while...
View ArticleStudy: Climate Change Will Likely Increase DFW Smog
Just last week at the June regional air quality planning meeting the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was bemoaning the fact that the weather too often determines how bad an "ozone season"...
View ArticleAsk the State and Holcim To Finally Give DFW “the Holy Grail” of Cement...
Swiss-based Holcim Cement is requesting a permit amendment to add new piece of pollution control equipment to its Midlothian cement plant, one of three cement plants that make the city the "Cement...
View ArticleAfter a 14-year Campaign, State-of-the-Art Pollution Control Finally Coming...
(Midlothian) After a 14-year effort by local citizens, Holcim US Inc. is applying for a permit to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to install a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) unit in...
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