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DALLAS — Environmental activists sued the Texas environmental agency Tuesday in an effort to force the state to regulate greenhouse gases, asking that coal-fired power plant projects be halted until that happens.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues air pollution permits that set limits on toxic releases, but the agency says there is no need to regulate carbon dioxide. Texas emits more greenhouse gases, made up mostly of CO2 emissions, than any other state.
The lawsuit by Public Citizen — which describes itself as a consumer advocacy organization — calls for greenhouse gas limits to be imposed as part of the permitting process, based on a 2007 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that classified carbon dioxide as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
"The time has come for the TCEQ to take its head out of the sand and begin the process to regulate CO2 emission from Texas sources," Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen's Texas office, said in a statement announcing the suit.
Bryan Shaw, the chairman of the TCEQ, said it would not make sense for the state to regulate CO2.
"The science on global warming is far from settled," he said in a statement. "Neither Congress nor the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) have been able to promulgate final rules on greenhouse gas regulation. What is certain is that if done incorrectly, CO2 regulations will impose great costs on Texas without any guarantee of a measurable environmental benefit. Reducing CO2 in Texas will do nothing to lower CO2 globally, but will have the effect of sending U.S. jobs to China and India."
Smith announced the suit in Austin in front of the Travis County Courthouse and a filthy 20-foot inflatable coal plant that Public Citizen often carts to protests around the state.
The group is hoping to change the rules for the five coal- and petroleum coke-fired plants awaiting permit hearings in Texas.DALLAS — Environmental activists sued the Texas environmental agency Tuesday in an... more
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Sick of drinking chlorinated tap water, lugging jugs, or wasting all those plastic bottles?
A Pollution Solution:
Legend Willie Nelson is a huge fan of pure water and drinking lots of it. He's known to hand his friends jugs of water on the tour bus. He's taken it one step further and made it possible for everyone to have good pure 'Willie Water' in their home and office, and to boot, commercial applications also.
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Their mission?
"Solving the World's Clean Drinking Water Crisis."
How does it work?
"The machine works by converting the humidity in the air to water."and "Our Atmospheric Water Generator produces purified water simultaneously purifying the air!"
Sick of drinking chlorinated tap water, lugging jugs, or wasting all those plastic... more
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Paul Stamets, a living legend and mushroom guru, points out the potential mycelium, or mushroom 'roots', have to solve real world problems.
With all magical mushroom jokes aside, using this natural 'bio-technology' will change our world.
Alleviate your home of termites for 50 cents - he can do it.
Remediate polluted soil of hydrocarbons/petrochemicals - he has done it.
Grow a cure for small pox and the flu - he is working on it.
Paul Stamets, a living legend and mushroom guru, points out the potential mycelium, or... more
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"Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out for gas and food, but it could get a whole lot worse. Just ask the North Koreans.
By John Feffer
Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39% last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global economy appears on the verge of a TKO, a triple whammy from energy, agriculture, and climate-change trends. Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out at the pump and the grocery store; but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could get a whole lot worse.
Just ask the North Koreans.
In the 1990s, North Korea was the world's canary...""Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out for gas and... more
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Interesting ideas for the solutions to this mess we're in.
A dash of Obama criticism, and a dash of hope..
"All of this may sound impossibly idealistic. However, it is far more idealistic to believe we can continue on our current path without massive social and economic breakdowns and increasingly severe ecological disasters. What we have been conditioned to want as individuals becomes immaterial when the planet is no longer willing to support our way of life."
-quoted from the articleInteresting ideas for the solutions to this mess we're in.
A dash of Obama... more
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Can't wait until innovation like this hits our shelves.
Energy from water (not a fuel cell)Can't wait until innovation like this hits our shelves.
Energy from water (not a... more
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What Chevron does with the it's.. 'human energy'.
The largest environmental class action lawsuit has been filed against Chevron, formerly Texaco, for the dumping of over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water directly upon the Ecuadorian Amazon rain-forest floor..
Since the court's environmental remediation estimate came in at a whopping $8-16 Billion dollars, Chevron has been shaking in their penny loafers and employing a few old tricks
(Chevron has hired former Republican Senator Trent Lott to lobby the Bush Administration to pull Ecuador’s special trade preferences unless Ecuador dismisses the $16 billion lawsuit against the company." -Amazon Watch)
Luckily for the 'little indians', they just might have Obama on their side..What Chevron does with the it's.. 'human energy'.
The largest environmental class... more
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Educate yourself..
Mansanto= Agent Orange, Bovine Growth Hormone (boycotted in Canada), GMO, Round-up, Innovative marketing techniques, FDA, Lawyers, etc.
Fax from Monsanto read: 'dire consequences for fox news if this airs in'
~ All the more reason for Current to take the bull by the horns, the monsanto bull, shhh. ~
Until soon,
K
Educate yourself..
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~Singing Willie's song, to promote harmony.
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Like never before I need a second opinion... Is this for real?!
(Where is Russell Gehrke when I need him?)
Is it possible to exponentiate energy? This video claims that through various stages of compression technology, energy can be created and not entirely lost..
The CAR is POWERED by .. AIR. (under pressure)
Poof!
~I want to be a believer.
'Although it costs money to create the compressed air, that energy is actually created by, compressed air..'
Geoff Lawton, a permaculture design proffesional, says that 'it's not how much water you have in a system, it's how many times you use that water/energy.. within the system.' And I loosely quote, 'If you have one gallon of water, and you use it once, well then you have one gallon of water.. If you take that one gallon of water, and use it ten times, well then you have ten gallons of water.
Your take?Like never before I need a second opinion... Is this for real?!
(Where is Russell... more
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The common chlorine chem. dump waste-treatment facilities are becoming a thing of the past..
Industry 'standards' are stubborn to budge, however, natural solutions make common cents. My the best woah-man win..
For the sustainable solutions of the future we've got to call in someone with experience... A few billion years experience that is.. Momma Nature knows best.
This Interview with John Todd Sr., walks us through various eco-restoration projects. They demonstrate the power of restoring "waste" sites, into a resource of clean water and beauty.
Enjoy..
The common chlorine chem. dump waste-treatment facilities are becoming a thing of the... more
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Problem:
"A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned."
"The phenomenon is caused when salt water loses large amounts of oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia that is typically associated with an area off the Louisiana coast at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The fresh water and salt water don't mix well, keeping oxygen from filtering through to the sea bottom, which causes problems for fish, shrimp, crabs and clams."
source: AP via - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_sc/dead_zone
Solution:
"Restorers" / Ocean Island Oasis / Hip Fishy Oxygen Bar
-Use solar or wind energy to pump oxygen down to the poor little fishies!
-Install John Todd's "Restorers"! to serve as a fishy oxygen bar oasis.
(images via - http://www.toddecological.com/services/lake.html)
*Build the floating forest 'raft', tow it out to sea, drop anchor, erect the windmill and water proof/corrosion proof solar panels, attach the water pump, descend the oxygen life support tube to the depths, (add fish eggs too?), and you're ready to rock and roll!
(Hurricane Preparedness: Install a remote activated wench that submerges the oasis below surface waves until the storm passes ;)
~My solution to run-away pollution..
Any other bright ideas out there?
Problem:
"A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this... more
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