Environment & Energy
GulfFuture.org campaign has launched
Important Hearing: PUC Considers Solar, Efficiency
Just in from Luke Metzger of Environment Texas:
I am writing to encourage you to attend an important hearing next week on two rules under consideration at the PUC which could further Texas’ investment in clean energy. The rules would help cut pollution, reduce need for new power plants and help kick-start a solar industry in Texas.
Do You Practice Eco Excellence?
The Role of Carbon Offsetting in Living Green
How to Contact BP
Do you have ideas for BP?
I received a string of e-mails today and the one below was included. It is correspondence from Hunter Rowe, Deputy Technical Manager of the Alternative Response Technology (ART) Team for BP. It includes the email address to which you can send your ideas about what they should do about the spill.
The names were not changed but were XXX'd out to protect the innocent.
Yes, I am secretly hoping you cc: us so we can post the good ones!
Have fun and thanks for playing!
Not a Dime of Taxpayer $ for BP
Not One Dime for BP
Last week, scientists revealed that BP's oil spill is much worse than we thought. The oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate somewhere between 25,000 and 80,000 barrels per day -- with underwater oil plumes stretching on as far as 10 miles. Oil-soaked pelicans, fishermen idled, coastal economies disrupted -- some have put the bill as high as $14 billion.[1] Who will pay for all this?
Click here to help make sure that BP is held accountable for every dime of this disaster.
Stop the New Coal-fired Power Plant Matagorda County
Stop the New Coal-fired Power Plant Matagorda County
A new coal-fired power plant in Matagorda County, TX will endanger the public health of residents in the region and fuel global warming.
Please take 2 minutes to and sign this petition: click here.
Then send this email to Matagorda County elected officials: click here.
Parents, Environmental Groups Ask for Protections from Toxic Chemicals
Rally for safe consumer products as bill is introduced in Congress
Matthew S. Tejada, PhD
Houston- Parents and environmental groups rallied today outside Americas Plaza in Houston’s East Side asking for stronger protections from toxic chemicals in consumer products as a bill, called the Toxic Chemical Safety Act, starts its journey in Congress. Local groups, like Air Alliance Houston and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS), are a part of a national coalition of 200 environmental and public health groups called Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, working to reform outdated federal law.
Press Release: Houston Avoids EPA Penalty Threat
Houston In Attainment for PM2.5 Avoids EPA Penalty Threat
State, City, County, and Other Entities Work Together to Reduce Tiny Particle Levels
In another example of Texas’ improving air quality, the EPA announced that it agrees with the TCEQ, and that the Houston area is meeting federal guidelines for a type of particulate matter called PM2.5. PM2.5, which is composed of tiny particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, can be hazardous in heavy concentrations.
Blood Metals in your Cel Phone
