Overturning Campaign Finance Restrictions Would Allow Corporations to Dominate Elections WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen joined a team of other attorneys in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the court to adhere to its precedents and reaffirm the longstanding principle that corporations may not engage in unfettered campaign spending. The [...]
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Public Citizen Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Campaign Finance Reform Law
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged austin v michigan chamber of commerce, bcra, bipartisan campaign reform act, Campaign Finance, citizens united, Elections, george washington university law school, hillary: the movie, litigation, mcconnell v FEC, political action committees, publi ctizen, randy moss, roger witten, scott nelson, seth waxman, supreme court, wilmer culter pickering & dorr llp on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Local Power/Energia Mia Update
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Budget, coalition, CPS Energy, Energia Mia, Energy, Grass roots, Local Power, Municiple utilities, NRG, Nuclear, nuclear waste, Organizing, Reactor, San Antonio, South Texas Project on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CPS has a meeting today at Firefighters Union Hall (8925-IH10 WEST) from 6:00-8:00 pm. Anyone from District 8 is encouraged to attend and speak for the cause. Each person gets three minutes of talk time and the Local Power/Energia Mia Coalition needs to have its concerns about the South Texas Projects Proposed expansion voiced by [...]
Jon Stewart gets ACES Right!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged cap and trade, cap'n trade, climate bill, john stewart, steven chu, the daily show, waxman-markey on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you missed Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, you did not get to see John Stewart and guest Steven Chu (Obama’s Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy) discuss the Waxman-Markey climate bill and America’s energy future. For those who missed it here are some highlights: Jon Stewart Jizz-Ams in Front of Children – [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Roundup
Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay area houston, bryan-college station, clear lake hospital, eye on williamson, governor rick perry, health care, john cornyn, mcblogger, mexico, off the kuff, principles of community organising, san jacinto battlefield, sonia soto, sonia sotomayor, south texas chisme, stimulus, Texas, texas kaos, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, unemployment insurance, wcnews on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Time again for the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly blog roundup. Off the Kuff takes closer look at that story about Texas turnout in last year’s election. WCNews at Eye On Williamson adds some context to what’s being said in Texas about Unemployment insurance, the stimulus, and Gov. Perry. This week at McBlogger, Krispy Kreme takes [...]
Energia Mia: San Antonio coalition tries to stop expansion of South Texas Project Nuke Boondoggle
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged CPS, Energy, Engergía Mia, Local, NRG, Nuclear, nuke, Power, SAAPAC, south texas nuclear project, STP on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don’t Nuke The Alamo! As we all know, San Antonio’s CPS energy is on the verge of investing in a third and fourth reactor for the South Texas Nuclear project in Bay City. In addition to the environmental and social concerns we have about nuclear power at Public Citizen, we also want to make it [...]
Dispelling Green Choice Myths
Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, Clean Energy, Coal, contract, electricity deregulation, Energy, energy grid, Gas, green choice, greenchoice, Myths, natural gas, Power, Renewables, Texas, transmission lines, wind on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Since the Austin American Statesman published a couple of articles on the less-than-stellar sales of Austin Energy’s Green Choice program, many media outlets have picked up the story and the takeaway message is something like “liberal Austin finds out the hard way that renewable energy is too expensive”. It’s really regrettable that this message is [...]
Hey Austin, want a free low-flow toilet? Better act before August!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged city of austin, Texas, water conservatino, water consumption, water efficient toilet on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yo Austin! The City of Austin’s Water Conservation Office is GIVING AWAY free water efficient toilets, but the program ends July 31st. Single family, multi-family, and commercial buildings all apply! You can either get a $200 rebate for an efficient toilet of your choosing, or get a totally free toilet and $60 rebate for installation. [...]
Worried About Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agriculture, atascosa county, bastrop county, cinderella, clean water act, coal block, coal power, comanche peak, contaminated water, crop and livestock losses, drought, Exelon, federal disaster, fossil fuels, gerald north, Glen Rose, halliburton loophole, hay prices, hurrican katrina, hydraulic fracturing, ipcc, kerrville, lake buchanana, lake travis, matagorda bay, natural gas, Nuclear, safe drinking water act, Texas, texas a&m, Victoria, water, waxo, white stallion on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking (and worrying) about water a lot lately. I suppose that the drought has brought all this concern along. Just a few months ago, folks were comparing this drought to the one that devastated Texas agriculture in the ’50s (when crop yields dropped by as much as 50%, all but one county in [...]
Energy Efficiency & East Austin
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, tagged Austin Energy, Energy Efficiency, Public Citizen, reenergize texas on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow from 8am till noon, Public Citizen and ReEnergize Texas will be at the Rosewood Zaragoza Community Center in East Austin handing out free compact fluorescent focos and registering community residents for free energy efficiency upgrades. ¡Gratis! Free low flush toilets, insulation and windows and doors to keep your hogar cool in the summer and [...]
Austin Energy Wants to Know: Where Should Our Electricity Come From?
Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, austin texas, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, global warming solutions, public meeting on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Austin Energy is holding a Public Advisory Meeting today, Monday 20, at 6 o’clock to discuss the City’s electric generation plan. This is your opportunity to tell our utility what kind of an energy future you want — smoking, or non-smoking? Word on the street is that the majority of their planning options so far [...]
Austin Chronicle “Best Of” Voting Ends Soon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Public Citizen, austin chronicle, best of austin on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear readers, the Austin Chronicle’s yearly “Best Of Austin” voting ends tomorrow. If you haven’t filled out a ballot yet, you should! There are all kinds of categories that your friends here at Public Citizen’s Texas Vox could fit into… Local Blog/ger, Local Politics Blog/ger, Nonprofit/Activist Group, Environmentalist. Don’t make us beg. Vote today!
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bay area houston, brains and eggs, evan smith, eye on williamson, galveston island, left of college station, mcblogger, mean rachel, off the kuff, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texas tribune, texaskaos, three wise men, wcnews on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Monday and it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme is sick of cronies running our cities our state and our country! WCNews at Eye On Williamson on more GOP shenanigans – Republicans, hypocrisy, the stimulus, and more Carter “nuttiness”. Off the Kuff notes that as Texas’ unemployment [...]
Express News Editorial Gets It, Why Doesn’t CPS?
Posted in Global Warming, Energy, Nuclear, tagged wind, solar, renewable energy, Nuclear, energy storage, Arjun Makhijani, San Antonio, CPS Energy, South Texas Project, san antonio express news, electricity on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following editorial from the San Antonio Express News is an excellent take on the issue of the South Texas Project nuclear expansion. Kudos to Carlos Guerra! Expert offers uniquely Texan power solution Carlos Guerra – San Antonio Express News With a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from UC-Berkeley, Arjun Makhijani has followed energy issues and [...]
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