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Texas Fold 'Em TXU Corp. board accepts biggest buyout offer in U.S. history		26 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Texas Fold 'Em TXU Corp. board accepts biggest buyout offer in U.S. history The white-hot controversy over 11 proposed coal plants in Texas has taken on a new hue. The board of TXU Corp., which has kicked up an anti-coal firestorm among businesses, politicians, and citizens, voted yesterday to accept the largest leveraged buyout offer in U.S. history -- and the $45 billion deal looks oddly g ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Perry and Thrust Judge's ruling could buy Texas coal-plant permit objectors more time		21 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Perry and Thrust Judge's ruling could buy Texas coal-plant permit objectors more time They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that applies to coal battles too. A big ol' permit hearing on six of the power plants proposed by TXU Corp. was scheduled to kick off today, with opponents explaining why they're not keen to live in a "ring of fire." But the anti-coal crowd got a big ol' reprieve: a judge decided yesterday th ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Y'all Go Away Now, Y'Hear? Texans rally to stop coal-fired power plants		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Y'all Go Away Now, Y'Hear? Texans rally to stop coal-fired power plants Some 1,000 fired-up citizens gathered at the Texas Capitol on Sunday to oppose proposals for up to 18 new coal-fired power plants in the state. The protest, organized by about 40 environmental and health groups, attracted greens, businessfolk, and people who like breathing. Much ire has been focused on energy giant TXU, which has a $10 billion proposal to bu ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Another op-ed on climate change and Texas New coal plants like accelerating toward a wall	Andrew Dessler	22 Jan 2007	Gristmill
My colleague Jerry North and I wrote an op-ed about plans to build a slew of new coal plants in Texas. It was not published, but I think it makes some good points. Interestingly, many of these same points are made in a recently published op-ed reported on here. Texas, coal, and climate change You're driving fast down a winding road. It's nighttime, and visibility is poor. You think you see warning lights in the distance, but you're not sure. Do you: Step on ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, Texas (all these topics)

Austin Legal Citizen, environmental groups sue Texas guv over controversial coal plants		19 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Austin Legal Citizen, environmental groups sue Texas guv over controversial coal plants The big ol' mess in Texas over TXU Corp.'s plan to build 11 coal-fired plants just got messier: four citizen and environmental groups have sued the state's governor, Rick Perry (R), for fast-tracking the permit process. Thanks to a swaggerific executive order Perry issued two years ago -- which the groups say violated both state law and the T ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Not Just for Stockings Anymore Plans for coal plants in Texas, Kansas fueling opposition from all sides		14 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Not Just for Stockings Anymore Plans for coal plants in Texas, Kansas fueling opposition from all sides As U.S. utilities try to keep pace with the energy-sucking public, they're planning 150 new coal-fired plants. But with coal plants already causing a third of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, critics are emerging from all corners. A heated battle in Texas over TXU Corp.'s plans for 11 new plants has inspired a h ...
Topics: coal, energy, Kansas, news, Texas (all these topics)

The Texas Supply-chain Massacre Federal agency says cost-cutting a factor in fatal BP refinery explosion		31 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Texas Supply-chain Massacre Federal agency says cost-cutting a factor in fatal BP refinery explosion Ooh, what a little belt-tightening can do: a new federal review says cost-cutting by BP contributed to the 2005 refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers and injured 180 others. Carolyn Merritt, chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, says the corporation implemented a 25 percent cut that affected infras ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, Texas (all these topics)

Crazed, Greedy Drilling in Texas? You Don't Say Natural-gas drilling booms in Fort Worth		27 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Crazed, Greedy Drilling in Texas? You Don't Say Natural-gas drilling booms in Fort Worth Forth Worth, Texas, lies atop a huge natural-gas field, and thus is at the center of the biggest urban drilling boom in the U.S. today. The city has leased more than 2,400 acres of public land for natural-gas development; over 600 wells have cropped up in the last year alone, and, says Mayor Mike Moncrief, "we've only just starte ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, news, Texas (all these topics)

The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants		06 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Texas Planet Massacre Texas may approve 16 new coal-fired power plants The state of Texas, which spews more greenhouse gases than Canada or the U.K., is set to reduce its emissions. And by "reduce" we mean "massively increase." Texas may soon approve construction of 16 new coal-fired power plants. And not the fancy new "clean coal" kind, either -- the old-school dirty kind, which would ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, news, Texas (all these topics)

Texas set to build new coal-fired power plants National efforts to cut GHG emissions will suffer	David Roberts	05 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Everyone is justifiably excited about the good news out of California, but a much more representative microcosm of the climate debate can be found in the great state of Texas. Texas leads the nation in GHG emissions -- it spews more than Canada or the U.K. It has no plan for reducing those emissions. It has rejected legislative efforts to reduce them for years. In essence, Governor Rick Perry has said that he won't do anything until the feds do, which we all know is ...
Topics: coal, energy, Texas (all these topics)

The Merchant of Menace How 'merchant coal' is changing the face of America	Carrie La Seur	24 Aug 2006	Main Dish
How "merchant coal" is changing the face of America By Carrie La Seur 24 Aug 2006 � From his rolling green soybean fields above a slow river in eastern Iowa, Don Shatzer looks out over the farm where he was raised, across land he and his neighbors have farmed all their lives. Below him are the garden beds where his wife Linda grows organic vegetables to safeguard the family's health, and the farm pond and beach he built for the grandkids. A few miles to the west ...
Topics: coal, energy, Iowa, Texas (all these topics)

They Weren't Kidding About the 'Future' Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
They Weren't Kidding About the "Future" Part Feds move forward with clean coal plant -- kind of The U.S. government is moving ahead with FutureGen, a $1 billion demonstration clean coal plant -- and by "moving ahead," we mean they've decided that it will be built on one of four sites in either Texas or Illinois. The final siting decision will be made in September 2007; constructi ...
Topics: coal, energy, Illinois, news, renewable energy, Texas (all these topics)

The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast		12 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast Yesterday, officials approved a plan to build the biggest offshore wind farm in the U.S. off the coast of Padre Island, Texas. Say it with us now: everything's bigger in Texas. Superior Renewable Energy LLC plans to erect as many as 170 turbines, with the capacity to power about 125,000 homes. Some conservation groups are up in arms, as ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Wind farm follies	David Roberts	11 May 2006	Gristmill
So, it seems they're going to build the nation's largest wind farm off the coast of Padre Island in Texas. Environmentalists are up in arms about ... wait for it ... the birds. Oy. This bit from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is amusing: "Those who are concerned about view sheds shouldn't have a problem," he said. "There's nobody there to look at it." Nice bank shot! Speaking of view sheds and wind farms, I confess I haven't been ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, Ted Stevens, Texas, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Oops Oil leaks all over everything		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Oops Oil leaks all over everything Oil, oil everywhere! And not in a good way. In its dubiously named Sustainability Report, oil behemoth Royal Dutch Shell reports that oil spills at its facilities rose 50 percent from 2004 to 2005. Hurricane damage was responsible for a goodly portion of the spillage, and sabotage of a major pipeline in Nigeria didn't help either. The amou ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil, Texas (all these topics)

The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast Texas has proposed what could become the nation's first offshore wind farm, about seven miles off the coast of Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico. The massive project would involve construction of around 50 wind turbines over some five years and would be expected to generate 150 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 40,000 hom ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Forgive Me, Padre, For I Have Drilled Drilling on a Texas barrier island could mess with sea turtles and other critters	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Mar 2004	Main Dish
Life's a beach -- and then you die. Photo: NPS. This time of year, a slim strip of Texas beach known as South Padre Island is hopping with bikini-wearing, hard-drinking college students on spring break. On neighboring North Padre Island, however, the scene tends to be quite a bit calmer. Nearly 70 miles of this Gulf Coast barrier island are natio ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, oil, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
A Texas Toast Wind Power on the Rise in Lone Star State Texas is probably not the first place that comes to mind when the topic turns to clean energy -- but the land of fossil fuels is looking to become a leader in renewable power by investing heavily in wind energy. The state is already the second-largest wind-energy producer in the country, trailing only California. In the last three years, Texas h ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Austin Powers		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Like Padre, Like Son		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Like Padre, Like Son With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in th ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, national parks, oceans, politics, Sierra Club, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Halliburton and Hunt Oil, two Texas energy companies with strong ties to the Bush White House, are requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing for a natural gas project in Peru that will tear through pristine rainforests. The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank are forbidden from funding projects that ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Peru, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Ozone Odd Couple	Ben White	19 Apr 1999	Muckraker
From the strange bedfellows file: Left-leaning Ozone Action and pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute agree on something. Sort of. The two groups occupy polar opposite ends of a hybrid coalition lined up to oppose a bill before the U.S. Senate that would give credits to companies that voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions in advance of Kyoto Protocol implementation. These guys don't make a habit of staking out similar positions. However ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, Muckraker, politics, Texas, United States (all these topics)

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