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Sierra Club

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Sierra Club Sues Energy Future Holdings, Accuses it of Thousands of Clean Air Violations

    Sierra Club on Tuesday sued Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, the state's largest unregulated generator of electricity, accusing the company's Big Brown coal-fired plant near Fairfield of thousands of violations of Clean Air Act standards. The environmental group gave the company an ultimatum l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Harold Simmons' Radioactive Waste Dump Gets the Go-Ahead from State Regulators

    A radioactive waste disposal company owned by Harold Simmons' Dallas-based Contran Corp. has been given the green light by state regulators to dispose of low-grade radioactive waste at a West Texas site. Representative Lon Burnam, who says he possesses confidential documentation exposing an undercu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    At a Time When Texas Electricity Is Scarce, Does It Make Sense To Export It To Mexico?

    A company that supplies electricity to Texans called American Electric Power filed to renew its application to export electricity to Mexico with the U.S. Department of Energy back in December. It operates a 720-megawatt coal-fired power plant near Vernon, and apparently it has been supplying our so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    This Fracking Map: Activists Plot More Than 100 Drilling Leases on City-Owned Property

    This afternoon, Dallas Residents at Risk, a coalition of of anti-fracking activists, will unveiling their map featuring what they say are more than 100 drilling leases on city-owned land totaling some 1,400 acres. The colorful visual shows that the extent of gas drilling leases in Dallas goes well b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Gas Drilling Activists Send Council's Task Force a Letter and Their Top Five "Proposed Rules"

    Photo by Patrick MichelsBack in April, Raymond Crawford and other local environmentalists brought to City Hall the 21-foot-long petition that helped spark the formation of the Gas Drilling Task Force.​When first formed back in June, the city council-appointed Gas Drilling Task Force had hoped to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Suit Alleges Texas Issued Luminant Unlimited License to Pollute Without Public Notice

    Big Brown​This little nugget slipped past us last week -- somehow, it didn't make headlines north of Austin -- but it draws the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality into a legal tussle with the Sierra Club and the Environmental Integrity Project over pollution permits it issued to Dallas- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Enviro Groups Prepare To Sue Luminant's Northeast Texas Power Plants Over Air Pollution

    Big Brown​The Sierra Club gave Luminant Generation Company, downtown-based and one of Texas's biggest power suppliers, notice Thursday that it plans to sue them for thousands of alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at two of its coal-fired power plants in northeast Texas. According to envi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    A Few Council Members Take in Gasland, But Not Before Mayor Mike Makes a Promise to City

    Photos by Leslie MinoraAngela Hunt was asked whether it's likely Dallas will be sued by gas drillers awaiting their SUPs.​Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night's Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, "I wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Gas Drilling Activists Not Happy With Council Component of Task Force Caraway's Assembled

    Photo by Patrick MichelsRay Crawford and his petition signed by those opposed to gas drilling in the Dallas city limuts​As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall's taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his prom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Harold Simmons One Step Closer to Getting What He Wants: Everyone's Nuclear Waste

    Annette and Harold Simmons​At the end of last year we spent quite a bit of time following Nuke Free Texas's efforts to stop  Governor Rick Perry's appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission from giving Waste Control Specialists the thumbs-up to bury nuclea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Activists Hail Dallas County Commissioners Court For Demanding State, Feds Clear the Air

    ​Anti-gas drilling activist Raymond Crawford sends word this morning: Moments ago the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted to adopt a resolution demanding the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency do something about cleaning up Dallas's air. Long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Former NY State Comptroller Makes Case For Retiring Three of Luminant's Coal-Fired Plants

    Big Brown​Former New York State First Deputy Comptroller-turned-investment banker Tom Sanzillo released a report this morning, via the Sierra Club, demanding that Dallas-based Energy Future Holding (and its Luminant subsidiary) shutter three of its coal-fired power plants: Big Brown (in Fairfield) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    Downtown Tomorrow, It's an EPA-Sponsored Open Season on Texas's Greenhouse Gas Regs

    ​If you were all revved up yesterday for a few solid hours of public debate on the environment, only to be abruptly denied, well, take heart -- at the Crowne Plaza Hotel tomorrow, the Environmental Protection Agency's holding an all-day hearing on its proposals for regulating greenhouse gases. Fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    After Proposing Land Swap, State to Pay Dallas Homebuilder $13 Mil for Devils River Land

    Texas Parks and Wildlife Department​A couple of months back we noted that the Texas Park and Wildlife Department had proposed making one hell of a trade with Dallas's Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Home, for some land down in Val Verde County. Sanders, you may recall, owns the 17,638-acre D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    At Friday's Screening of Gasland, Rallying the Troops to Keep Gas Drilling Out of Dallas

    Photos by Patrick MichelsAfter the movie, director Josh Fox, center, stuck around for a Q&A joined by the Sierra Club's Peter Wilson, Dallas drilling activist Raymond Crawford, DISH mayor Calvin Tillman and drilling activist Sharon Wilson.​Gas drilling opponents from around North Texas rallied ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Got Something to Say About Coal Ash Pollution? The EPA Wants to Hear From You Today.

    Lower Colorado River AuthorityA new Sierra Club report says coal ash from Central Texas' Fayette Power Plant is polluting the groundwater nearby.​One month since the EPA's stolid road warriors blew threw Arlington to get your thoughts on pollution from gas drilling, the agency's making its triumph ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2010

    Did Joe Barton Have a Point?

    Lower Colorado River AuthorityA new Sierra Club report says coal ash from Central Texas' Fayette Power Plant is polluting the groundwater nearby.​One month since the EPA's stolid road warriors blew threw Arlington to get your thoughts on pollution from gas drilling, the agency's making its triumph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Is the City of Dallas Really Going Green, Or Just Talking Till It's Blue in the Face?

    The city of Dallas has made much of its efforts to "build a greener city" ... which means what, exactly? That, more or less, was the question posed earlier this week during a confab at the downtown Dallas library during a program billed as a dialogue on the "green economy," a catchphrase that's beco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2009

    PCB or TYA: Those Hudson River Carcinogens Are Finally Rolling Into Texas

    Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons's Waste Control Specialists will turn one state's trash into one man's treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs -- or polychlorinated bi ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2009

    The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

    Back in February, Alexa wrote about the pending transport of Hudson River sludge to West Texas, where Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons's Waste Control Specialists will turn one state's trash into one man's treasure. That trash in question are millions of cubic yards of PCBs -- or polychlorinated bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Out in West Texas, Harold Simmons Is Burying Hudson River Carcinogens

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    Take a Deep Breath, Dallas. You Too, Fort Worth. No, Really.

    Ever wondered what's at the bottom of New York's Hudson River? Andrews, a small West Texas town 350 miles west of Dallas, is about to find out.Last month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved an application to allow the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in a site just outside ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Clearing the Air

    Former County Judge Margaret Keliher keeps trying to blow away the smoke over pollution plans

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    On the Road Again, Leppert Stumbles

    Former County Judge Margaret Keliher keeps trying to blow away the smoke over pollution plans

  • News

    September 6, 2007

    Choke On It

    North Texas gets schooled on the nasty politics of dirty air

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2007

    What Pickens is Pickin'

    North Texas gets schooled on the nasty politics of dirty air

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Re: Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

    North Texas gets schooled on the nasty politics of dirty air

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2006

    Cancer Happens (Or: You Could Be Next)

    North Texas gets schooled on the nasty politics of dirty air

  • Home Entertainment

    June 22, 2006

    Shark Bites

    JAWS Unleashed is as sloppy as it is gory

  • Music

    August 26, 2004

    Various Artists

    Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk Records)

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    What's the Catch?

    This new Trinity River plan is suspiciously reasonable

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Green Giant

    Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Muddy Waters

    Mayor Miller rafts down the Trinity in search of truth

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Down by the Old Mill

    A band of East Texas environmentalists takes on a polluting paper plant and proves that might doesn't always make right, even in a company town

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Desert Blooms

    Jetports and elite resorts may do what border bandits and blistering heat couldn't: rob Big Bend of its rugged beauty

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Dallas architect Tom Stanley crafted buildings that endure on city skylines across the country, but his fortune and family wouldn't survive their own shaky foundations

  • News

    April 19, 2001

    Mean Green

    What do you get when you cross the Zapatistas with Dr. Dolittle? The Animal Liberation Front

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Dumped on

    Mistrust fuels McKinney's fight against plans for a landfill

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Whizzing inside the tent

    ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Letters

    Judging Joe Kendall; Elian's kidnapping; Clearing the air; Chaos on Lower Greenville

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Belly up

    Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So des the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Letters

    Those magic bridges; Baby Buddha; Duh; The happy snob

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Clearing the air

    The motive behind a series of Bush attack ads may have been business, not politics

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    Bay botch

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    $ucker$

    Forget Brooklyn -- Dallas' own Trinity River boosters aim to con you out of tax dollars for seven silly bridges

  • Calendar

    January 21, 1999

    Girding for battle

    Forget Brooklyn -- Dallas' own Trinity River boosters aim to con you out of tax dollars for seven silly bridges

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    Letters

    Forget Brooklyn -- Dallas' own Trinity River boosters aim to con you out of tax dollars for seven silly bridges

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Letters

    Forget Brooklyn -- Dallas' own Trinity River boosters aim to con you out of tax dollars for seven silly bridges

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Ill Wind Blowing

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

  • Calendar

    December 7, 1995

    Events for the week

    Texas Industries wants permission to burn 270,000 tons of hazardous waste each year at a concrete plant 30 miles from Dallas. That would make it the nation's largest incinerator of toxic waste. Despite stunning ignorance about what this will do to your he

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