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Texas Legislature Advances Clean Power and Green Jobs, but Loses Steam in Political Wranglings

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, AECT, andrews county, building codes, carbon sequestration, clean coal, Clean Energy, clean power, compact loophole, Cyrus Reed, distributed energy, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, environmental defense fund, environmental groups, fast tracked water permits, flynn, germaneness, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, greenhouse gas emissions, house committee on environmental regulation, Karen Hadden, lon burnam, luke metzger, mtbe, no regrets, Nuclear, plug-in hybrids, Public Citizen, PUC, radioactive waste dump, recycling, renewable energy, representative rafael anchia, SEED Coalition, senator ellis, senator troy fraser, Sierra Club, TAM, TCEQ, tdot, texas association of manufacturers, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith, txdot, utility efficiency goal, voter id, water contamination, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Environmental Groups See Clean Energy Groundwork Laid for the Future (Austin) Senate and House members from both political parties showed unprecedented support for developing more renewable energy and energy efficiency in Texas by filing a large number of clean power, green jobs bills in the 81st Texas State Legislature. A number of major bills passed [...]

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So Much for the Solar Session

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged anchia, citizen sarah, fraser, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, hb 1243, larry mcmurtry, leonard cohen, no regrets, plug-in hybrids, public citizen texas, solar, Texas, Texas Legislature, tom waits, townes van zandt, warren chisum, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Well, the sun has just about gone down on the so-called “solar session”. Today is Sine Die — the last day of the legislative session. Friday night, HB 1243 – solar’s last lifeline — was killed on the House floor. Earlier in the week, Rep. Warren Chisum called for a strict enforcement of the House [...]

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