Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 400,000 members since 1967. Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems. Its strategy is to link science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.Â
GHASP works most closely with the Texas Office of Environmental Defense established in 1990 and located in Austin. We partner most closely on issues relating to clean air plans for Houston (both ozone and fine particulates), reduction of diesel emissions and efforts to bring industrial pollution releases (upsets) under the appropriate regulatory authority of the Clean Air Act.
Who's the Unreasonable One?
Industry Blocks Progress on Reducing Toxic Pollution
For years, industry has cried for “sound science” and tried to paint environmentalists as unreasonable. Yet despite the scientific community’s agreement that Houston’s toxic pollution is harmful to public health, industry stopped all attempts to address the problem at the recently concluded Texas Legislature. Who’s being unreasonable?
Cleaner energy for Houston?
A major power plant is proposed for Fort Bend county, and according to the Houston Chronicle, it would use new gassification technology, making it a cleaner option than TXU's proposed coal-fired plants.
The proposed 1,200-megawatt plant, known as Lockwood Road, will be designed to produce electricity for less money per kilowatt-hour than a coal plant, Hunton Energy President Rocky Sembritzky said, thanks to a long-term contract with oil refiner Valero Energy to buy petroleum coke — a relatively inexpensive refining byproduct — to fuel the plant.
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