UPDATE: Hope you’ve been keeping an eye on this, but just needed to point out there have been major developments on this which make this post now completely false. We don’t believe in just dumping things down the memory hole here, but do believe in making sure we get things right. The updates are all [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Judge orders halt to Compact Commission meeting: did opponents of expansion of waste dump just win?
Posted in Radioactive Waste, tagged nuclear waste, Public Citizen, radioactive waste on December 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
TPA News Roundup for Dec 27, 2010
Posted in News Roundup on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
EDITOR’S NOTE: We want to thank the TPA for sharing their roundup every week. We may not agree with every story they put up (and some of them are more partisan and political than others or what we normally write about), but the content is always interesting and entertaining and a good snapshot of what [...]
Texas may get a lump of radioactive waste in their stocking if billionaire donor to Governor Perry has his way
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County waste dump, Grinch, Harold Simmons, radioactive waste, waste control specialists, WCS on December 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
UPDATED: Thanks to everyone who commented! We’ll have a blog wrapup/ news release ASAP. VIDEO FROM OUR PRESS CONFERENCE ! And check our flikr photostream here on the blog for non moving pictures from this morning, if that’s more your thing. We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark, already in progress. ORIGINAL POST: [...]
Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power… or does it?
Posted in Energy, solar, Texas Legislature, tagged Ken Anderson, non wind rps, public utility commission, renewable energy, rps, solar power, Texas, Texas Legislature on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters carried a good story with this headline Texas, home to Big Oil takes a shine to solar power that describes the solar potential that exists, along with industry involvement and how it could be expanded here if we could just develop some statewide policy that supports it. Too bad the commissioners at the Texas [...]
Texas Appliance rebate part II (don’t miss out on this one) !
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, recycling, tagged Comptroller, Efficient energy use, energy efficance, Energy Star, Funds, Texas on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Need a new refrigerator, washing machine, dish washer, water heater, air conditioner or heat pump? The the state has a deal for you. Texas has started another round of its energy efficient appliance rebate program. As we covered in a previous blog post this is a big, sweet deal of a rebate for new energy [...]
Texas will get new 4 Congressional seats – redistricting reform needed, and Lord of the Rings references
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Redistricting, tagged Democratic, frodo, independent redistricting commission, jeff wentworth, mark strama, redistricting, republican, Texas, United States Congress on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Well, it’s official– and let the bloodbath begin. Texas has been growing (this we knew), but by enough to mean that we will get 4 new Congressional seats. Much of our growth has been occurring in suburbs and exurbs, and we’ve been losing relative population in rural areas, so it will be interesting to see [...]
Time for a new oil industry watchdog: Citizens!!!
Posted in Energy, Good Government, tagged bp, oil spill on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
During the final public meeting on the BP oil spill disaster, the Oil Spill Commission indicated that it would recommend reforms to address the current regime of lax safety and environmental regulations, future oil spill response, and Gulf Coast restoration. Not surprisingly, one theme surfaced that cuts across all of these areas – the need [...]
TPA News Roundup for Dec 20, 2010
Posted in News Roundup on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance is tracking reports of sugar plum sightings as it brings you this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff reminds you that expanded gambling is still doomed in the next Legislative session. The EPA Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order to Protect Drinking Water in Southern Parker County has spawned a media frenzy [...]
Happy Holidays from the Texas office of Public Citizen
Posted in Global Warming on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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New solar farm ground breaking in Pflugerville.
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Business, public citizen texas, renewable, RRE Solar Austin, solar energy, Solar Farm on December 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
RRE Solar Austin held its groundbreaking ceremony in Pflugerville yesterday. This is the first utility scale solar farm, and one of the largest photovoltaic projects in the country, to be built by the company and the first to break ground in the Austin area. Planned to produce 60Mw of solar energy when completed it will [...]
TCEQ gets an earful from citizens at the Sunset hearing
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged clean air act, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A Texas Sunset Advisory Commission hearing, which was part of the first legislative review of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 12 years, drew hundreds of regular citizens from around the state, with most of them saying the agency had failed to protect them from pollution. Dozens of people, including doctors, school teachers, church-going grandmothers [...]
Far from the madding crowd
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged sunset commission, TCEQ, Texas on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s well after 10pm and the crowd at the Sunset Advisory Commission hearing has dwindled, including the commisioners. Of the 12 commissioners, I’m only seeing five still on the dias and as the camera periodically pans the audience, one can see that it has thinned considerably since this morning. Here at Armadillo Christmas Bazaar Jimmy [...]
Sunset Commission hearing keeps going and going and going
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged sunset hearing, TCEQ on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here I am at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar people watching Christmas shoppers (for those readers not from Austin, the Armadillo Bazaar is an annual artist Christmas venue which has been happening in our fair city for 30+ years and runs every day the two weeks before Christmas – yes they are here until 11pm on Christmas eve for [...]
Pecan Grower’s Lament
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged coleto creek, Pecan, sulfur dioxide, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission’s hearing on TxDOT, TxRRC and TCEQ continues, visiting citizens have been sharing their stories with us. Many of them are here to testify about issues they have had with TCEQ, and we hope the commission will move the hearing along so that those who have traveled 3 to 8 hours to [...]
Texas Sunset Advisory Commission Hearing Today – TxDOT, Railroad Commission and TCEQ
Posted in Global Warming on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to watch the hearing on streaming video, click here. The hearing is being held at the Texas Capitol, hearing room E1.036 (scroll down to Video Broadcast #8). The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT) is working with numerous concerned citizens who have come in from all over the state – Dallas, Fort [...]
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