The Energy Citizens’ rallies company picnics, such as the one we crashed yesterday in Houston, have been getting a lot of attention through the Netroots, in national publications, and even last night on Rachel Maddow (where one of our videos was featured, even if credit was not given — no worries this time Rach, we [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Real Anti-Cap and Trade Grassroots blocked from Energy Citizens Rally
Posted in 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, unemployment, waxman-markey on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Andy Wilson talks about Energy Citizen Corporate Picnic in Houston
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, energy rally, Global Warming, houston, Public Citizen, waxman-markey on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Why Does Big Oil Hate Our Freedom?
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged #FrontGroupFAIL, ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As you may have read elsewhere on our blog, we tried to attend the “Energy Citizens” rally in Houston yesterday but were turned away. Even far-right teabaggers, brought out to the event by FreedomWorks and a promise of a free meal, weren’t allowed in, despite actually being sympatico with Big Oil’s agenda. The offending item [...]
Houston’s Energy Citizens Company Picnic
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizen event. Billed as a “grassroots” rally against the cap and trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic. About 2500 energy employees were brought by charter bus to the Verizon Wireless [...]
Big Oil Astroturf rally in Houston more company picnic than grassroots campaign
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, green jobs, houston, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your intrepid friends at Public Citizen tried to attend the astroturf “Energy Citizens” rally yesterday in Houston. We’re busy pulling together our bloggings and all the footage we shot, but keep checking back here for updates throughout the day. We were not allowed in the meeting, as we did not work for an energy company, [...]
Austin Energy’s Generation Plan: More Renewables and Efficiency, Less Coal?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, Coal, coal plant, CPS Energy, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, lcra, Lee Leffingwell, Nuclear Power, renewable energy, Renewables, Roger Duncan, solar power, wind on August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It has been less than 24 hours since I received a copy of Austin Energy’s Generation Plan recommendation and there’s a lot here to like. Before I get to the highlights, let me just say that those of you who spoke up, filled out the survey, played the sim game and demanded more renewable energy, [...]
UPDATED: Grassroots vs Astroturf- the difference in citizen activism
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACCCE, ACES, API, astroturf, Balanced Energy choices, Big Oil, Campaign Finance, Citizen Power, climate change, Global Warming, Grass roots, grassroots politics, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, Waxman-Markey bill on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Greenpeace has just obtained an internal API memo detailing their astroturf plans. You can read the memo and Greenpeace’s reply here. Job “whale” done, Greenpeace! *** Most people have a good general conception of what a real grassroots movement looks like: citizens get outraged over some injustice or inequity and get organized and get [...]
Boerne Makes Move on Local Renewable Power
Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Renewables, tagged Boerne, Dan Heckler, Don Burger, energy district, HB 1937, lcra, pec, progressive power, public power, Villareal on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this article recently in the Express-News’ Northwest Daily and had to share. Boerne, population c. 9,400, located about 30 miles northwest of San Antonio, will soon establish a framework for the development of distributed generation. Under the terms of an ordinance that passed a first reading on July 28, each single-family residence [...]
Texans care about climate change too
Posted in Global Warming, tagged abc news, climate change, Global Warming, houston area survey, lyceum poll, opinion polls, survey results, Texas, texas climate news, Washington Post on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being an environmentalist in Texas, sometimes it feels like the whole world is against you. There’s a common assumption that folks around here just don’t care as much about the environment as elsewhere, and that people don’t see climate change as all that much of a threat. When I tell people that I work to [...]
San Antonio Mayor’s Nuclear Town Hall Tonight
Posted in Nuclear, tagged City Council, city public service, Consumer Energy Coalition, COPS/METRO, CPS, Energia Mia, mayor julian castro, Nuclear Power, nuclear renaissance, public citizen texas, San Antonio, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, South Texas Project, STP, Texas, town hall on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tonight, August 10, is Mayor Castro’s Town Hall Meeting, where he wants to allow the community to tell city council and himself what they think about going the nuclear route. This is so important to attend. It will be at the City Council Chambers downtown where Flores and Commerce meet (map below). Sign-up to speak [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acorn, annise parker, bill clinton, chicago, cnn, Congress, denton county, houston astros, jennifer giles, michael burgess, politicians, recess, teabaggers, texas progressive alliance on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Congress may be in recess, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in session. Here’s the weekly roundup of blog highlights. Off the Kuff takes a closer look at the crimefighting plan of Houston Mayoral candidate Annise Parker. WCNews at Eye On Williamson encourages everyone to get involved in lobbying their elected officials and [...]
New Anti-Nuclear Group, Energía Mía, Putting Heat on CPS
Posted in Nuclear, tagged cindy weehler, CPS, Energia Mia, green pary, julian casto, nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, Public Citizen, San Antonio, san antonio area progressive action coalitioin, san antonio express news, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, South Texas Project, southwest workers union, STP, texas drought project on August 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As many of you already know, the nuclear battle is getting pretty heated in San Antonio these days. That’s why a new citizen’s group, Energía Mía, has recently formed. But they can tell you their intentions better than I can: Citizens are uniting in efforts to halt CPS’ spending for more nuclear reactors. Speakers from [...]
Want to intern at Public Citizen’s Texas Office?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advocacy, Austin, Efficiency, Energy, environment, interns, internship, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Renewables, Texas on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear readers: We need fall interns for our Austin office. Think you’ve got what it takes to make me coffee contribute in a meaningful way to our team? Want to be the next Citizen X? Check out the following infos and apply today! Feel free to ask questions about the internship in the comments section, [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bryan, ciro rodriguez, climate bill, climate change, college station, david dewhurst, debra medina, democrats, fire, gas drilling, gop, governor perry, john carter, kay bailey hutchison, kbh, lewisville, michael vick, nra, racism, republicans, sarah palin, south texas, Texas, texas progressive alliance, toxic materials, unemployment insurance, waxman-markey on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are in August, and like every other week it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. TXsharon needs your help to Expose This Dirty Video. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme calls out KBH and the GOP for using racism and the NRA to get out the vote in 2010. Having a competent, [...]
Austin Energy Wants to Know: What kind of an energy future do you want?
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Renewables, tagged Austin Energy, austinites, city coucil, city of austin, Coal, Efficiency, fayette, generation plan, lcra, natural gas, Nuclear, powersmack, Public Citizen, shut down fayette, solar, survey, Texas, wind on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Austin Energy will make a recommendation to City Council in August of their future generation plan through 2020. According to their website, “an important component of the planning process is input from the community” — but as of April, only about 300 people had filled out Austin Energy’s survey. Through the survey, you can give [...]
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