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Public Meeting Held on White Stallion Power Plant
Original post found on the Coal Block blog. This past Monday there was a public meeting to give the local community a chance to voice their opinion about the proposed White Stallion Power Plant near...
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Houston Area Environmental Film Screening
Live in the Houston area? This Wednesday, April 8, at 11:00 am, Houston Community College will be showing both FIGHTING GOLIATH: TEXAS COAL WARS and FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER as a part “The Reel” Series,...
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Public Citizen Urges Residents to Attend Upcoming Hearing on White Stallion...
Residents Who May Be Affected by Plant’s Pollutants Should Tell the Judge AUSTIN – Next Monday marks the last chance to register as legal opponents to the White Stallion power plant proposed near Bay...
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Too Much Fun this Week
There is too much fun going on in the next few days… I can’t handle it. I wish I could be multiple places at once… and influence climate change legislation by sheer will power.. and attach documents...
View ArticleFighting Goliath Screening in Nacogdoches Today!
Our readers in Nacogdoches are invited to join Coal Block activist and Public Citizen’s own Ryan Rittenhouse at a screening of Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars today. When: Thursday, May 07 2009,...
View ArticleAustin City Council Coal Action Success
Many thanks to everyone that made it to the Austin City Council meeting yesterday for an anti-coal demonstration! Twenty five to thirty concerned citizens stood up in City Council chambers, dressed in...
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West Texans Question How Proposed Tenaska Coal Plant Would Affect Water...
Citizens aware of extreme drought conditions point to potential serious conflict over water if coal plant were built (Abilene) – The Multi-County Coalition, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and individuals...
View ArticleTCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant
The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a...
View ArticleRecap: Roll Beyond Coal Tour
The November/December edition of Public Citizen News, a bi-monthly newsletter distributed to Public Citizen members, featured this article on our statewide “Roll Beyond Coal” Tour. Since not all of...
View ArticleTexans Speak Up for Clean Air at Houston EPA Hearing
Earlier this week the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing on a newly proposed rule to strengthen federal ozone standards. A coalition of environmental and public health advocates...
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Houston’s Ozone Compliance Threatened by White Stallion Coal Plant
Public Citizen and Area Legislators Urge State to Deny Air Pollution Permit HOUSTON – Area legislators joined Public Citizen this week in urging environmental agencies to deny the White Stallion coal...
View ArticleCity’s smog concerns may choke power plant
Anybody catch this article last week in the Houston Chronicle? An important issue to think about: how coal plants will not only affect the surrounding air quality, but that of communities down wind. If...
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Week in Review
Welcome to the debut of the Public Citizen Texas Week in Review. Every day our advocacy staff works to organize citizens and politicians in order to realize our progressive vision of a healthy...
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Week in Review
“Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?” — Vladimir, Waiting for Godot The Public Citizen Texas Week in Review Tom Smitty Smith was in Andrews County this week meeting with...
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Week in Review
After Week in Review‘s SXSW hiatus, our weekly blog update is back in action, keeping you posted on Public Citizen’s energy advocacy work. Carol Geiger presented the interns a workshop on grant...
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Corpus Christi Residents Can Breathe a Short, but Clean, Sigh of Relief
This week the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality received a recommendation from two administrative judges denying the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas Energy Center in Corpus Christi. The...
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Week in Review
The staff at Public Citizen Texas would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter and a pleasant weekend with family and friends. Thanks for taking time during the holiday to read about our energy advocacy...
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Week in Review
This week’s string of fossil fuel disasters–a Chinese coal carrier striking the Great Barrier Reef and dumping tons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, an oil pipeline spilling into the Louisiana Delta...
View ArticleGet to Know an Activist: Ryan Rittenhouse
The latest activist in our series is Public Citizen Texas’ Ryan Rittenhouse. Ryan is our anti-coal advocate from Cleveland, Ohio and has a B.A. in Communications from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania...
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Week in Review
Busy, busy, busy. Public Citizen staff have been making the rounds this week, traveling all over Texas in order to educate, empower, and organize citizens. From Beaumont to Dallas. From tar sands to...
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