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E.P.A. delaying tougher rules on emissions. Are global warming gases next?
Image via Wikipedia In the face of the changes in the political dynamic in Washington, the Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations. The new rules were set to take...
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EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas
The much anticipated hearing between the Environmental Protection Agency and Texas regarding the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will occur this morning in Dallas, Texas. The hearing is set to...
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Stop TransCanada From Bringing Dirty Oil to Your Backyard
It’s been a while since a status update has been given on the Keystone XL pipeline project here at Public Citizen so the time has come! The Keystone pipeline project is Canadian initiated undertaking...
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What is causing all this wicked weather?
MSNBC’s Today Show host Matt Lauer interviews CUNY physics professor, Michio Kaku, about possible causes of these wild winter storms. Click here to watch this segment. Filed under: Global Warming...
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To Beef or Not to Beef: The Cattle Industry is Trampling All Over Our...
The next time you bite into that double quarter-pounder with cheese, you may want to think twice about it. Literally though, once for your health and once for Mother Nature dearest. The livestock and...
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Student Activists Shut Down Coal Meeting
Great news from St. Louis! Students and other activists from “Green Action” (at Washington University in St. Louis) and Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) entered the Hilton St....
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Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate
The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste...
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Civil Disobeyer Faces 10 Years in Prison
In December of 2008 (interestingly the same month as the TVA Kingston Coal-Ash Disaster) a 27-year-old Tim DeChristopher repeatedly bid up 12,000 acres of land intended for oil and gas exploration to a...
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Encourage the EPA to issue strong New Source Performance Standards without delay
Repower America, wants to share an important piece of news with you. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to limit global warming pollution from big fossil fuel industries like...
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The Texas Livestock Industry: Are our cows at risk?
Americans tend to think of climate change as a ‘down the road’ future phenomenon. But the fact of the matter is that although the world isn’t coming to an end tomorrow, we are being impacted by climate...
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Your Grocery Bill and the Amazon Rainforest: What’s the Big Deal?
Could your trip down to the neighborhood meat market, or your favorite burger joint be contributing to the demise of the Amazon rainforest? Cattle ranching in Brazil is the leading cause of...
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Is fracking worse for the climate than coal?
A new study from Cornell Professor Robert Howarth shows that natural gas from shale beds extracted through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has the same effect on the climate as burning coal,...
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18 Coal Plants to be Closed!
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has agreed to close 18 coal units over the next 6 years. This is a major victory in the battle for clean air, particularly in regards to TVA, who has been sued many...
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Drought worsens in Texas
Drought plagued cotton field in Lubbock, Texas just two weeks ago - photo by Betsy Blaney, AP More than half the state of Texas is now gripped by the most extreme level of drought measured by...
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Perry running for President as a climate change denier
An unnamed Republican campaign veteran told the Washington Post that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President, though the official word from the Perry camp is still a definite maybe,...
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Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt climate change
Statewide organizations support youth as they appeal TCEQ decision denying petition to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe Three Texas youth and one young adult filed for judicial...
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Texas drought, is this a come to Jesus or climate change moment?
The worst Texas drought since the 1950s has a handful of cities facing a prospect they’ve never encountered before: running out of water. Many lakes and reservoirs across the state are badly depleted...
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World global warming gas emissions soar
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated the global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide soared by six percent in 2010, the biggest single year increase on record...
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NOAA Report – Global warming has made 2011 Texas heat wave about 20 times...
According to a story on MSNBC, scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they now believe they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening,...
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Free Tickets to Documentary Chasing Ice Feb 8-10
Chasing Ice is an environmental documentary film, listed in the top 15 best documentaries for the Oscars, coming to Austin TX on Feb 8-10 at Regal Arbor. Chasing Ice follows acclaimed photographer...
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