Tapping into Energy Efficiency (EE) Throughout the Nation (open access)

Tapping into Energy Efficiency (EE) Throughout the Nation

This is the national support infrastructure for effective energy efficiency programming.
Date: July 16, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Rules Public Hearings (open access)

Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Rules Public Hearings

This document is the speaking order for the speakers held by the Environmental Protection Agency's Proposed Clean Power Plan Federal Plan and Model Rules Public Hearings.
Date: November 16, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memorandum: Administration of Clean Water Programs in Light of the Stay of the Clean Water Rule; Improving Transparency and Strengthening Coordingation (open access)

Memorandum: Administration of Clean Water Programs in Light of the Stay of the Clean Water Rule; Improving Transparency and Strengthening Coordingation

This memorandum outlines the administration of the Clean Water Programs of the Clean Water Rule.
Date: November 16, 2015
Creator: McCarthy, Gina & Darcy, Jo-Ellen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Horace Thomas Edwards, February 16, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Horace Thomas Edwards, February 16, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Horace Edwards. Edwards joined the Army Air Forces in February 1943. He received basic training at Sheppard Field, radio training at Harlingen, and aerial gunnery training in Sioux Falls. He completed his training as a B-24 radio operator gunner in Holyoke. He was transferred to Godman Field, where he served as a B-25 radio instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Towards the end of the war, he was stationed at Columbia Army Air Base as part of a ground control approach unit, helping pilots learn to land blind in preparation for poor weather and blackouts. Edwards returned home and was discharged in 1945. He remembers V-J Day as a time of celebration in crowded streets.
Date: February 16, 2015
Creator: Edwards, Horace Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Rackerby, November 16, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Rackerby, November 16, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Rackerby. Rackerby joined the Marine Corps in February 1943 and trained in San Diego, then went to radio school at Texas A&M. He went overseas to Green Island and was attached to Marine Aircraft Group 14 (MAG-14). Rackerby served in the photography section and processed film. He remained there for a year before moving to the Philippines. Rackerby returned to the US in May, 1945 to prepare for the invasion of Japan with Marine Aircraft Group 51, but the war ended. Rackerby was discharged in November 1945. He used the GI Bill to attend university.
Date: November 16, 2015
Creator: Rackerby, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Roy Elrod, May 16, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Roy Elrod, May 16, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Roy Holland Elrod. Elrod was born in Muleshoe, Texas in 1919 and was raised on a farm. Between semesters at Texas A&M and summer school at Texas Tech, Elrod worked in construction before joining the Marine Corps in September, 1940. He trained in San Diego. He was attached to the newly re-formed 8th Marines in California and shipped out to Samoa after the attack on Pearl Harbor. At Samoa, Elrod received a field commission before going to Guadalcanal in October, 1942. When his unit left Guadalcanal, the went to New Zealand to rest and prepare for Tarawa. When he arrived on the beach at Tarawa, he was in charge of a few 37mm guns. His men hauled those ashore and set them up on the airstrip. After refitting, Elrod invaded Saipan. This time, he was in charge of a group of halftrack armored vehicles. he was wounded on Saipan and evacuated to a hospital on Guadalcanal, where he ran into to Bob Hope. He eventually was shipped back to the US and was teaching in a gunnery school in San Diego when the war ended.
Date: May 16, 2015
Creator: Elrod, Roy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Cooke, December 16, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with David Cooke, December 16, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with David Glenn Cooke, Jr. Cooke joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He completed boot camp in San Diego, then was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Norman, Oklahoma, where he trained as an ordnance ground crewman. Additionally, he serviced F-4F and F-6F airplanes at Pendleton. He provides details of his training, serving as Corporal of the Guard (COG) and completing all three of his service years stateside. He was discharged in July of 1946.
Date: December 16, 2015
Creator: Cooke, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thanksgiving weekend brings special DART and TRE plans (open access)

Thanksgiving weekend brings special DART and TRE plans

News release about DART's adjusted service schedule in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Date: November 16, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART and TRE Make Christmas and New Year's Eve Plans (open access)

DART and TRE Make Christmas and New Year's Eve Plans

News release about DART's adjusted service schedule in observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Date: December 16, 2015
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History