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LIVE: Nueces County commissioners to hear public comment on stricter septic tank standards

2014-04-30 19:54:53| Waste Management - Topix.net

The Texas Commissioner on Environmental Quality has given Nueces County permission to move forward with pursing stricter standards for septic tank instillation.

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Obama Orders Stricter Fuel Efficiency Standards For Big Trucks

2014-02-18 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Trucks on U.S. roads and highways have long needed an efficiency makeover, and President Barack Obama demanded it Tuesday afternoon in Maryland. Obama said his administration will issue tougher fuel-efficiency standards for delivery trucks by March 2016, The Associated Press reported. Heavy-duty trucks are only 4 percent of the vehicles on the country`s roads, but account for about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that the transportation sector emits into the air. "For decades the fuel efficiency...

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Low-Cost LNG, Stricter Air Rules Mean Fewer New Coal-Fired Powerplants

2013-11-27 17:31:19| ENR.com: Headline News

Tightening federal environmental rules and low natural gas prices are combining to spur the biggest boom in gas-fired powerplant construction in a decade.

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TCEQ Dismisses Dallas Docs' 'Knee-Jerk' Call for Stricter Limits on Coal-Fired Power Plants

2013-10-24 18:10:57| Waste Management - Topix.net

Two months back, the Dallas County Medical Society petitioned the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to crack down on emissions coming from Luminant's three coal-fired power plants in North and Northeast Texas, which are among the nation's dirtiest.

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