With blue lips and chattering teeth, the Texas Progressive Alliance brings you a hot steaming mug of blog highlights for the week. This week on Left of College Station: the filling deadline has ended and the primaries in the Brazos Valley are crowded with candidates. Also, a look at who tweets among the primary candidates [...]
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Texas Progressive Alliance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bay area houston, brains and eggs, brazos valley, democratic women of denton county, denton county, eye on williamson, gas drilling, greenpeace, harris county, human trafficking, south texas chisme, texas congressional district 7, texas progressive alliance, williamson county on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
See “Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars” Online at Hulu
Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged coal block, coal plant, coal rush, fighting goliath, hulu, robert redford, smitty, sundance preserve, texas coal wars, Tom "Smitty" Smith, TXU on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The full documentary Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars about the fight against the TXU coal rush in Texas is now online and Hulu. Watch it here. Or, if you’re not sold yet, check out this preview: Fighting Goliath was produced by the Sundance Preserve and narrated by Robert Redford. It features our very own Director [...]
Austin Scores $4.8M in Stimulus Funds for Green Jobs Trainings
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged austin texas, green jobs, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, San Antonio, solar, stimulus funds on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced that the city of Austin will receive $4.8 Million in stimulus funds to train 1,000 workers in energy efficiency and clean energy jobs. Workers will be trained for jobs at solar plants in Austin, San Antonio and surrounding cities and states, and but the trainings will prepare participants for [...]
Perry, Shaw Blow Smoke About Proposed Ozone Rule
Posted in Energy, Toxics, tagged bryan shaw, bush administration, EPA, governor perry, obama, oil and gas, ozone, proposed rule, science, TCEQ on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In response to the EPA’s announcement today of a proposed rule for tougher ozone standards, Governor Perry and his appointee to the TCEQ, Bryan Shaw, have been blowing a lot of smoke and hot air about what the rule would mean for Texas. Specifically, Perry and Shaw have stated incorrectly that the rule did not [...]
EPA: They did it, they did it, they did it, yeah!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Austin, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ozone, smog on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just following up on our post yesterday that the EPA was going to announce a new air quality standard limiting ozone pollution: they did it! The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog…The agency is proposing to set the “primary” standard, which protects public health, at a [...]
Year in Review: Solar Power
Posted in Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, City Council, environment texas, mic sol-o, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, solar, solar plant, solar power, texas solar roadmap, Webberville, wildcatting the sun on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Part 4. Sunny With a Chance of Economic Development: Solar Potential, the Solar Session that wasn’t, and City of Austin Solar Plant Last spring, our minds were budding with thoughts of birds, bees, and… Texas’ solar potential (didn’t you know, a robust solar program would put Texans back to work and position the state as [...]
EPA to Announce New Air Quality Standard Limiting Ozone Pollution
Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, Austin, beaumont, corpus christi, dallas, EPA, fort worth, galveston, houston, longview, non-attainment, ozone pollution, port arthur, San Antonio, state implementation plan, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, tyler, Waco on January 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today Texas environmentalists, legislators, and medical practitioners wait with bated breath for an announcement from the EPA about a new air quality standard for ozone pollution. The proposed rule would strengthen the Bush administration’s ozone standard, which did not meet scientific scrutiny or standards to protect public health. Now that scientists have demonstrated that ozone [...]
Year in Review: San Antonio Nuclear Debacle/Amores Nucleares Telenovela
Posted in Nuclear, tagged solar, NRG, STP, Nuclear, Public Citizen, Arjun Makhijani, San Antonio, CPS, CPS Energy, SEED Coalition, Texas, nuclear information and resource service, japan, austin city council, south texas nuclear project, texas vox, nukes, city public services, mark cooper, nuclear reactors, Energia Mia, craig severance, center for american progress, amores nucleares, steve hennigan on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
*Update: Greg Harman at the San Antonio Current just published a fantastic and very thorough recap of the twisted nuclear saga. Check it out! Here’s part 2 in this year’s first annual Year in Review: Top Texas Vox Stories of 2009 series. Part 1 is just a hop, skip and scroll down. 3. San Antonio [...]
Year in Review: Top Texas Vox Stories of 2009
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Renewables, solar, tagged 2009, 2010, 81st legislative session, Air Quality, american petroleum institute, API, astroturf, auld lange syne, calendars, chubbing, City Council, clean air act, Clean Energy, climate, climate legislation, Energy, Energy Citizens, Energy Efficiency, freedomworks, governor perry, green fleets, green gee, Netroots, new year, no regrets, north carolina, Obama administration, public citizen texas, solar districts, solar power, Texas Emissions Reduction Program (TERP), texas vox, voter id on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now that the ball’s dropped, toasts made, fireworks popped and black eyed peas consumed, we’re feeling reflective today. Faced with that eternally annual question, “Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot?“, I’m moved to such mental poetry as “Heck no, this year was too much fun!” We’ve had a hell of a year here at Texas Vox. [...]
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