Tagged : public-citizen
May 13th, 2010
From Green Right Now Reports
Public Citizen has had a few choice words to describe the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act unveiled Wednesday.
Energy program coordinator Tyson Slocum called the draft legislation a “nuclear energy-promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting gift to polluters bill.”
Slocum’s blog, posted yesterday is based on a broad outline released just in advance of the final draft of American Power Act. He itemizes what Public Citizen, a champion of citizen’s rights and an advocate for sustainable energy, sees as the APA’s numerous flaws:
Excessive nuclear power incentives that burden taxpayers
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Tags: · Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, carbon capture and storage, clean coal, clean energy, consumer protections in American Power Act, Nuclear Power, Offshore Drilling, opposition to Kerry-Lieberman, Public Citizen
February 16th, 2010
From Green Right Now Reports
Call it the Texas two-step.
Just after Texas Governor Rick Perry filed a lawsuit against the EPA on Tuesday, questioning the federal agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Texas environmental groups parried back.
Texas’ Public Citizen and the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club announced they were issuing Perry a citizen citation to “cease and desist endangering the health of breathers, the economy and the climate in Texas by continuing to permit coal plants and other large sources of CO2.”
The groups explained in a joint news release from Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office, and Ken Kramer, director of the Lone Star Sierra Chapter:
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Tags: · Air Pollution, EPA, Governor Rick Perry, greenhouse gas regulation, Greenhouse Gases, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas
March 24th, 2009
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Environmentalists, community activists and some state legislators are calling for a temporary moratorium on coal plants in Texas, where 12 coal-fired power plants are proposed.
The opponents gathered at the capitol in Austin today, saying that halting construction of the plants would help fight climate change and protect the health of local communities by cutting out coal’s toxic wastes and emissions, according to advocacy group Public Citizen.
“The evidence is now abundantly clear: Climate change is already affecting Texans and impacts will only increase in severity if we fail to act quickly. Texas already leads the nation in global warming gases. If we were our own country, Texas would rank eighth in the world among carbon emitters,” said Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office, in a press release.
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Tags: · Carbon Emissions, coal plants, Corpus Christi, Galveston Bay, moratorium on coal, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas, Texas activists
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