One environmental group believes that the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) needs something more than just a chimney sweep to clean up its act. LCRA was served with a notice of intent to sue last week by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), representing the Texas Campaign for the Environment. The environmental group’s notice of intent […]
Our friends at the Texas Tribune report today that the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas has dropped its opposition toĀ a coal mining project along the Texas-Mexico border. The project in question is the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership, which would take coal from a strip mine along the border in Maverick County, Texas and ship it […]
This week the Sierra Club filed a federal lawsuit against Energy Future Holdings Corp. and its subsidiary, Luminant Generation Company. The Sierra Club alleges that Luminantās Big Brown coal-fired power plant has āthousands of ongoing air pollution violationsā of the Clean Air Act. The plant is located approximately 65 miles northeast of Waco in Freestone […]
We all use electricity – but what systems are in place to make sure it’s there when we need it? How does the whole grid work in the first place? Those are questions examined in the latest episode of a new series on PBS called America Revealed, which aims to peel back the layers of […]
We recently asked the Under Secretary of the Army about what the military’s doing when it comes to renewable research.
The company is planning to build one of the country’s more innovative pollution control projects. It will use some of its pollution to pump oil out of the ground.
A few years ago, when US natural gas production was kicking into high gear, gas promoters like T. Boone Pickens sold it as something close to a panacea. It was a plentiful source of energy that could create jobs at home. It could wean the US off of foreign oil. Perhaps most importantly, it was […]
Take a look at thisĀ satellite image of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Haitiās on the western side, the Dominican Republic is on the east. Now look at the border dividing those counties and you notice a troubling detail. In many places, the forests on the Haitian side disappear: View Larger Map āNinety-five percent of Haitiās […]
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