Archive for August, 2009
Late Monday LOLZ
Posted in Global Warming, tagged american clean energy and security act, caveman, congressman caveman, funny, solar energy on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Global Warming, tagged annise parker, ashby high rise, bay area houston, brains and eggs, chet edwards, denton county, EPA, eye on williamson, gene locke, Global Warming, governor perry, health care reform, joe lieberman, left of college station, mcblogger, medicare, obama, pete olson, peter brown, south texas chisme, ted kennedy, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No tea bags left? Neil [...]
Casual Friday: “I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills!” Bjørn Lomborg Nonsense, Forbes names Exxon “Green Co of the Year”
Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Bjorn Lomborg on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got an email from my brother thanking me for the Zoolander references in yesterday’s blog post about the “Faces of Coal” Astroturfing. His only complaint is that there wasn’t more Mugatu. Well, after reading Bjørn Lomborg’s nonsense in today’s WSJ, I can honestly say: I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS! Lomborg may classify [...]
Citizens Win Right to a Hearing in Opposing South Texas Project Nuclear Reactors
Posted in Nuclear, tagged atomic safety and licensing board, department of agriculture, energy security, environmental report, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, livestock, matagorda county, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Public Citizen, radioactive waste, robert v. eye, safety, san antonio water system, saws, SEED Coalition, south texas association for responsible energy, South Texas Project, susan dancer, toxic discharge, tritium on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
UPDATE: Safety panel hearing in the news: at the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express News Citizen opposition to two proposed nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project continues with another success. On August 27th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that the nuclear applicant, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company [...]
Houston Mayor and Senate Hopeful Speaks on Energy Security
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged #nn09, bill white, building codes, cap and trade, consumer advocacy, Efficiency, Energy, fuel efficiency, Global Warming, houston mayor, low-income consumers, netroots nation, Nuclear, renewable energy, science, senate on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While at Netroots Nation a few weeks back, I had the opportunity to listen in on a panel discussing climate change, Texas’ energy future, and energy security featuring Houston Mayor Bill White (you might have also heard he is running for US Senate). Mayor White gave very measured, political answers. Throughout the panel, never did [...]
More Astroturf: “Faces of Coal” are actually IStock Photos
Posted in Coal, tagged american coalition for clean coal electricity, astroturf, clean coal, Coal, coal ash, coal ash slurry spill, coal ash spill, coal ash waste, coal industry, coal mines, coal mining, coal plant, Faces of Coal, mountain top removal on August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Rule #1 for being an organization even pretending to be a grassroots movement: Actually have some grassroots supporters. Even manufactured outrage groups ginned up by Freedomworks or the Tea Bag people or United Health Care actually have people who believe and will regurgitate their corporate PR spin. But, presumably because the coal industry couldn’t find [...]
UPDATE: The Church of Money, Rod Blagojevich and Bill Richardson
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Bill Richardson, Blagojevich, Campaign Finance, corruption, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, money, politics, public financing, Roland Burris, scandal on August 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
UPDATE: Bill Richardson was cleared of any wrongdoing in this fund raising scandal and we wanted to briefly comment on it and also resurrect this post, which to this day remains one of our most read blogs ever. As I commented in response to some of your reader’s comments below, the point was never to [...]
San Antonio Nuclear Showdown TONIGHT
Posted in Nuclear, tagged clean technology forum, CPS Energy, facebook, julian castro, kstx, lanny sinkin, michael kotara, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Public Citizen, public radio, San Antonio, san antonio town hall, solar san antonio, South Texas Project, STP, terry gildea, Texas, texas public radio, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Twitter on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: The streaming audio from last night’s event was, unfortunately, very hard to listen to — but folks who weren’t willing to wade through the feedback can watch our video of the town hall in its entirety, which we should be able to post in the next couple days Tonight KSTX will host a Town [...]
WATCH: Inherit the Hot Air! The US Chamber of Commerce v. Science
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, american clean energy and security act, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Congress, endangerment finding, EPA, funny, Global Warming, Massachusetts v EPA, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, scopes monkey trial, SEED Coalition, SNL, unfrozen caveman lawyer, US Chamber of Commerce, video, waxman-markey on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The US Chamber of Commerce wants to put the science of global warming on trial. Not only that, they themselves claim they want this trial to be similar to the Scopes Monkey Trial where a Tennessee teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution, made even more famous by the play and film “Inherit the [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bay area houston, bosskitty, brains and eggs, eye on williamson, frac act, mcblogger, off the kuff, pdiddie, pete olson, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, the texas cloverleaf, three wise men, truthhugger, txsharon on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drilling”–proof that hydraulic fracturing contaminates our drinking water. Even Motley Fool supports the [...]
Most Energy Citizen Rallies Organized By Oil Lobbyists
Posted in Energy, tagged american petroleum institute, astroturf, company picnic, Energy Citizens, grist, houston rally, kate sheppard, oil lobbyists on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A new line of intrigue in the Energy Citizen astroturf events: turns out that, on top of being funded by the American Petroleum Institute and stocked with (at the Houston event, exclusively) energy company employees, the majority of them are also being organized by oil-industry lobbyists. Kate Sheppard from Grist reports: Here’s more evidence that [...]
Citizens Groups Win Right to a Hearing for Comanche Peak Intervention
Posted in Nuclear, tagged alternative energy, atomic safety and licen, atomic safety and licensing board, bob eye, comanche peak, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Karen Hadden, Luminant, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, SEED Coalition, solar, Texas Representative Lon Burnam, true cost of nukes, wind on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak continues. On August 6th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that Luminant had failed to adequately analyze issues brought by concerned citizens in their Petition to Intervene in the proposed expansion at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. “This is a major victory for [...]
Pushback to Energy Citizens Rally in NC, State Rep Turned Away
Posted in Global Warming, tagged astroturf, cap and trade, citizen, climate change bill, costs, Energy Citizen, energy legislation, gas prices, greensboro, jobs, Jon Cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, labor, north carolina, north carolina conservation network, Public Citizen, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, taxes, Texas on August 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kudos to the North Carolina Conservation Network for rallying the troops for a real grassroots protest outside of today’s Energy Citizen company picnic in Greensboro. Fifty protesters turned out to show their support for clean energy and green jobs development, NCCN reports: Local folks gathered on the sidewalks surrounding the coliseum to make sure that [...]
Energy Citizens (Corporate Employees) Say the Darndest Things at API Astroturf Event
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, tagged astroturf, cap and trade, citizen, climate change bill, costs, Energy Citizen, energy legislation, gas prices, jobs, Jon Cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, labor, Public Citizen, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, taxes, Texas on August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Even though we were denied access, our intrepid Citizen Sarah was able to blend in with a crowd walking in and starting talking to energy company employees about climate change legislation. You know, Energy Company Employees Can Say the Darndest Things: Look for: Global Warming Deniers! People Who Have NO IDEA What is actually in [...]
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