In a shareholder meeting yesterday, Target executives addressed growing concerns over political actions of the company as well as performance. Shareholders were upset over the $150,000 donation to Minnesota Forward, which is a political group that backed Tom Emmer as a gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota in 2010. Emmer is an opponent of same-sex marriage and [...]
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Shareholders Fight Back Against Citizens United
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged Campaign Finance, citizen united, Lady Gaga, Target on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and Industry Pressure
Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged acid gases, arsenic, Boiler MACT, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Energy, coal plant, election, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lead, Lisa Jackson, mercury, public citizen texas on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her colleagues in the Democratic Party, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has been campaigning nationwide for the regulation of toxins such as mercury from [...]
How Many Tar Sands Pipeline Spills Does Texas Want?
Posted in Tarsands, tagged david daniel, keystone, pipeline, sands, spill, stop, tar, tarsands, XL on June 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
U.S. Stops Keystone I Line from Restarting After 12th Spill in 12 Months, Days Before Comment Period Ends on Keystone XL For over a year, TransCanada has been trying to get its hands on a Presidential Permit from the U.S. Department of State to extend its Keystone I tar sands pipeline with a pipeline called [...]
Renewable Energy and the 82nd Legislature
Posted in Renewables, solar, tagged austin texas, solar energy, solar power, Texas on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you live in Austin, TX and put solar on your rooftop, you might be able to pay only about a quarter of the initial cost estimate, making this a viable option for many homeowners. But for many Texans, there is still a good reason not to go with solar: the generous local incentives that Austinites [...]
Money and Politics Going Hand in Hand
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged campaign contributions, citizens united, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Harold Simmons, public citizen texas, robert reich, Stephen Colbert, texans for public justice, Texas Legislature on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent NPR show, former Labor Secretary and political commentator Robert Reich addressed the potential executive order by President Obama to require government contractors to disclose their political spending. Reich wants to take the executive order a step farther by eliminating all political contributions from government contractors. Reich explains that contractors such as Lockheed [...]
Free trees for Texas!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Garner State Park, Texas, Tree on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Odwalla is donating $100,000 to plant trees in the United States this year. You have a vote in where those trees will be planted! Visit Odawalla and plant your tree in Texas. Each tree planted online equals $1 your state will receive to plant real trees in Texas State Parks. Last year more than $15,000 [...]
Drought worsens in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, drought, Global Warming, Texas on June 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
More than half the state of Texas is now gripped by the most extreme level of drought measured by climatologists and as I look out my window at the lush green strip of lawn in front of the office building across the street, I wonder how long they will be able to keep watering to [...]
Why Can’t We Get It Right? New German Energy Plan to Close Nuclear Power Plants
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In an energy article published today, The New York Times reports German Prime Minister Angela Merkel abandoned plans for extending the life of Germany’s nuclear power plants and ordered them to be closed by 2022. This is a stunning reversal of energy policy for the German Chancellor considering she approved plans 9 months ago to [...]
PEC lawyer found guilty
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, money laundering, pedernales electric cooperative on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Kendall County jury found former Pedernales Electric Cooperative legal counsel Walter Demond guilty of all three felony charges outlined in his June 2009 indictment. Demond was found guilty of theft, misapplication of fiduciary property and money laundering. The jury recommended that Demond receive 10 years probation and be required to pay a $10,000 fine [...]
Texas Legislature Fails to Protect Public Health or Achieve Clean Energy Jobs Potential in 82nd State Legislative Session
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today, several Texas environmental organizations spoke up on the recent Texas legislative session and their failure to protect public health or achieve clean energy jobs potential for the state. Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Public Citizen, and SEED Coalition hold Texas State Legislators accountable for missed opportunities to both protect public health from big energy [...]
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Massive Opposition to Tar Sands Pipeline
Posted in Tarsands, tagged comments, keystone, keystone xl, permit, pipeline, spill, state department, Tar Sands, tarsands, transcanada on June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over 260,000 Americans have told the State Department that they do not want the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline to receive a permit. After two recent spills (and averaging one a month) on the 1 year old Keystone pipeline (Keystone XL would extend that pipeline into Texas) it seems obvious that Americans are waking up [...]
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