Update On Forced Green’s Post ‘Texas At A Green Crossroads’ – The Earth Won!
Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit to block the EPA from demanding that the state begin to comply with the clean air act, met with defeat on June 30th when the EPA announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ – all Perry appointees), had submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan. EPA has determined that this program does not meet several national Clean Air Act requirements that help to assure the protection of health and the environment.
Now Is The Time For All Good Texans To Come To The Aid Of Their Environment! And The Rest Of The World Is Invited To Put In Their Two Cents.
For over a decade, environmentalists accused the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of lax regulation and urged the EPA to step in. Now the EPA appears to be agreeing with them and has given Texas until June 30 to change its approach or lose its oversight authority at potentially dozens of large industrial sites.
Enough is enough. Please sign the petition in support of the EPA fixing Texas’ broken air pollution permitting system: http://www.environmenttexas.org/action/clean-air/perry-petition2
Gov. Rick Perry continues attempts to block the EPA from (more…)
Want to hear something outstanding? After more than 115,000 Americans had gone on the Internet and registered their interest in the 2011 Nissan LEAF all electric car, last Tuesday (April 20), Nissan opened the reservation lines and in the first 65 hours 6,635 customers paid their $99 and signed up to reserve their zero emission car for a December delivery. Far exceeding the expectations of the company which hoped to have 25,000 reserved customers lined up by the car’s roll out in December. Better than 25% of their goal reached in hours instead of months. (more…)
We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, NOW you get mad!?
This article entails, for the most part, an email I received edited to include components for which this site was created:
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. You finally got mad when regulations and legislation is put in place to protect the planet. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans and the planet too! …oh hell no.
This is a country built on diversity, every country on this planet is represented in America. It is what makes us strong. Working for a better tomorrow for ALL our children, not just those we give birth.
It doestake a village and we must take care of the village – a village called Earth.
Hurricanes and Snow Storms Are Getting Stronger And Lasting Longer
Home Sweet Home!
It’s 5:35 in the afternoon and for the last 10 hours we have been working on getting the generators up because power has been out since 2 in the morning. Kicking ourselves because the generators have not been prepped since Ike hit us 17 months before. But now they’re working and everybody is thawing out. Except for the noise and regretfully, the noxious exhaust, everything is like normal because home is an RV.
A local news channel always ends the newscast with one of the anchors giving his ignorant 2 cents on whatever His Arrogance deems worthy of his biting critique.
Sure enough, he is now spouting a fact that the snow and ice we are experiencing in East Texas, (which would be normal in Minot, North Dakota), is proof that global warming is nonexistent and made up by followers of Al Gore to make him a billionaire. ??? — WHAT? — Really?!! — Oh good! My middle finger just came back to life. Hope the rest of my digits follow suit, that could be embarrassing.
Only way out!
People please, nobody said only the tropical storms would get worse. ALL STORMS are getting STRONGER and LONGER. The same words that have been said all along. And as for you Mr. Head-In-The-Sand, the Earth is annoyed and like a flea on a dog, she will scratch your pompous ass right off her surface, too bad she will take the rest of us with you.
Mother Nature will right herself, one extreme way or another.
On Christmas Eve, an expectant Colorado mom went into cardiac arrest during labor and died, along with her baby. But miraculously, both managed to revive.
New Year’s Resolution!
Just thought I’d share
my New Year’s resolutions
with you…
I will respond to all e-mail
(except chain letters)
in a timely manner.
I will learn to cook something
both low-fat AND delicious.
I will cease and desist
any and all bad habits
for an entire year.
(or at least until January 2nd)
I will do laundry on a regular basis
before it becomes
a possible fire hazard.
I will pick one place
to put my keys and the remote
so that I don’t spend half my life
running around like an idiot,
looking for them.
I will seek true enlightenment
and the meaning of life.
(while occasionally
remembering to floss.)
And my #1 resolution
is to always appreciate
great people like you.
It is that time of year on Hawaii. A one-day surfing competition held only in extreme conditions has been staged for the first time in five years, thanks to the massive waves pounding Hawaii’s famed North Shore. (more…)
Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit to block the EPA from demanding that the state begin to comply with the clean air act, met with defeat on June 30th when the EPA announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ – all Perry appointees), had submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan. EPA has determined that this program does not meet several national Clean Air Act requirements that help to assure the protection of health and the environment.
For over a decade, environmentalists accused the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of lax regulation and urged the EPA to step in. Now the EPA appears to be agreeing with them and has given Texas until June 30 to change its approach or lose its oversight authority at potentially dozens of large industrial sites.
Want to hear something outstanding? After more than 115,000 Americans had gone on the Internet and registered their interest in the 2011 Nissan LEAF all electric car, last Tuesday (April 20), Nissan opened the reservation lines and in the first 65 hours 6,635 customers paid their $99 and signed up to reserve their zero emission car for a December delivery. Far exceeding the expectations of the company which hoped to have 25,000 reserved customers lined up by the car’s roll out in December. Better than 25% of their goal reached in hours instead of months. 
This article entails, for the most part, an email I received edited to include components for which this site was created:
It is that time of year on Hawaii. A one-day surfing competition held only in extreme conditions has been staged for the first time in five years, thanks to the massive waves pounding Hawaii’s famed North Shore. 
