The order shortened the process that previously took several years to a matter of months. In addition to the letter, Perry forwarded a page report by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, outlining storage options for high-level nuclear waste in Texas.
Rick Perry signed a bill to privatize nuclear waste disposal in Texas. A panel of eight sate employees reviewed a disposal site proposed by WCS , working for for years to make their report. However they said that they knew the permit would be issued regardless of their findings: [38]. The panel, still, found that the waste site should not be buried so close to large aquifers: [38]. All three commissions on the panel had been appointed by Perry, and they chose to ignore the environmental review.
One commissioner, Larry Soward, said that there were numerous complaints and that a call for a public hearing had been denied by the other commissioners. Website by SeriousOtters. International US UK. Facebook-f Twitter. Rick Perry. He majored in animal science. March 7, Perry was a speaker at CERA Week, an annual energy conference in Houston, Texas that attracts a range of energy company executives and leaders of oil producing countries.
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Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Peter Overby. Archived January 18, Jonathan Martin. Archived April 30, Archived June 19, 7. Asked whether CO2 emissions are primarily responsible for climate change, Perry told CNBC's "Squawk Box" : "No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.
The question should be just how much, and what are the policy changes that we need to make to effect that? Those statements contradict the public stance of the Environmental Protection Agency, at least until recently. The EPA's webpage on the causes of climate change used to state, "Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change.
The science shows that the oceans are warming—as they absorb carbon dioxide and heat trapped by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But Perry said he thought it was good to question those conclusions. Is man having an effect on it? Up until now, Perry, who had a record of promoting both renewable energy and fossil fuels as Texas governor, has focused on the potential economic costs, rather than taking on the science more directly, as Pruitt has done.
Clean coal research would be cut by 85 percent. Perry will face some of the GOP senators who wrote a letter last month decrying the proposed cuts. Marianne Lavelle is a reporter for Inside Climate News. She has covered environment, science, law, and business in Washington, D. Lavelle spent four years as online energy news editor and writer at National Geographic.
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