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Texas News Roundup for Feb 28, 2011

Posted in News Roundup on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance would like to thank the Academy for this week’s blog roundup. Off the Kuff published an interview with Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the YES Prep charter schools, which included a discussion of what the looming budget cuts will do to charter schools. Doing My Part For The Left is [...]

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ACT Lobby Day is Tuesday, March 15th at the Capitol.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

On March 15th, Texans from all corners of the state will be in Austin, visiting our elected officials and letting them know that we want them to protect our land, our water, and our health. Sign up now!

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Why Gasland should win the Oscar for best Documentary

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I hope you’re going to have a great Oscar night, and while we may all have our favorites for best picture (True Grit was my favorite, but I think The Social Network and The King’s Speech are also very deserving), this year we have one of the most important issues of our time as the [...]

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Eminent Domain: Coming to your town soon?

Posted in Air Quality, Good Government, natural gas, tagged , , , , , , on February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest civil court, will hear a controversial case over whether a company that plans to build pipeline to carry carbon dioxide and natural gas from Louisiana to site south of Houston qualifies as a “common carrier,”  giving it the power of eminent domain. That means if they want to [...]

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Attack on climate change solutions through a government funding bill

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The funding bill the House of Representatives voted in favor of is an attack on climate change solutions and climate change science. The House cuts would: Prohibit the EPA from setting limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, factories and refineries, among the most significant sources of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States. [...]

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Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate

Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste landfills. The following is a message from our friends with Environmental Integrity Project. Please take a few moments to contact your senator and [...]

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A few house members defend EPA during a joint house committee hearing

Posted in Air Quality, Texas Legislature, tagged , , on February 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »

John Moritz and Patrick Graves covered the joint hearing of the House Energy Resources and Environmental Regulation committees for the Texas Energy Report, which they say continued the long-running theme at the Texas Capitol that the feds are unfairly targeting Texas industries while ignoring progress made over the decades on clean air matters. But about a half-hour [...]

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Student Activists Shut Down Coal Meeting

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Great news from St. Louis! Students and other activists from “Green Action” (at Washington University in St. Louis) and Missourians Organized for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) entered the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark to disrupt a meeting of the National Coal Council – a federal advisory committee to the U.S. secretary of energy (see their extremely dramatic [...]

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City of Austin new NRG/Toshiba target

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

So now San Antonio is sitting back watching with a knowing eye as NRG/Toshiba (formally know together as NINA) approaches the City of Austin with the hope that Austin hasn’t been paying attention to what they put San Antonio through just a year ago. Greg Harman of the San Antonio Current provides an update to [...]

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Middle East crisis could impact the global economy. How will the effects be felt in Texas?

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In a piece by John W. Schoen, senior producer at MSNBC, he leads with: As the turmoil in the Middle East spreads to Libya, a major oil producer, the shockwaves of Arab unrest are reverberating through the global oil supply chain – and threatening to spill over into the global economy.  Click here to read [...]

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Lawrence Lessig to Speak on UT Campus Mon Feb 28, 6pm- we have your tickets!

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged , , , on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Harvard Law School, is coming to Austin to speak on the corrosive influence of Money in Politics, thanks to our good friends at the Coffee Party Austin.  Seating is limited, and having a ticket will guarantee you a seat. However, if you do not get a ticket, there will be some [...]

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CPS Energy: Leading San Antonio into the New Energy Economy

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on February 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Solar Austin is hosting a special event featuring the CEO of San Antonio’s municipal utility, Doyle Beneby of CPS. Mr. Beneby will discuss CPS Energy’s plan to pursue affordable renewable energy. This special event will take place at Malverde (400 W. 2nd, next to City Hall) with a Reception starting at 4pm and talk from 5 to [...]

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NRG could pull out permanently from STP expansion by the end of the 2011 3rd quarter.

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged , , , , , , on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

NRG Energy, Inc. posted their 2010 Full-Year and Fourth Quarter results today.  It appears that if no loan guarantees are forthcoming and the company fails to secure sufficient Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for the STP expansion project by the third quarter of this year, NRG could make a final decision to pull the project. For [...]

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PEC names new CEO

Posted in Co-op Reform, tagged , , , on February 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) has named R.B Sloan as its new CEO. Sloan begins March 6, leaving his current job as director of utilities in Danville, VA.  He also ran the city-owned electric company for Vero Beach, Fla. PEC, the nation’s oldest and largest co-op has been plagued by scandal and management upheaval over [...]

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France reports incidents at 8 nuclear plants

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, Renewables, tagged , , , , on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Associated Press, France, the most nuclear-dependent country in the world, with over 75 percent of its electricity coming from nuclear reactors, recently reported incidents at 8 of their 59 reactor units. French authorities say they are having to replace faulty metal bearings in the emergency power systems of eight nuclear plants due [...]

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