Punxsutawney Phil is a groundhog resident of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. On February 2 (Groundhog Day) of each year, Phil emerges from his temporary home – if he sees his shadow and returns to his hole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter, if he does not see his shadow, he has predicted an early spring. [...]
Archive for September, 2011
The State Climatologist sees his shadow and predicts nine more years of drought
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged drought, La Niña, Texas on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Citizens United – MoveToAmend.org Tour
Posted in Global Warming on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
David Cobb, a fiery speaker, and former Green Party presidential candidate, is touring Texas giving his talk “Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule.” This presentation is part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action! Cobb is an organizer and national spokesman for MoveToAmend.org, a coalition of over 130,000 people and organizations whose goal is to amend [...]
Austin Tar Sands Hearing a Farce
Posted in Global Warming on September 29, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Hundreds of people turned out and many waited for hours yesterday in Austin, TX to testify against the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which is proposed by a foreign company and threatens the health, climate and water of those living along the proposed pipeline route. This pipeline would be carrying the dirtiest of oil [...]
Keystone XL pipeline (tar sands pipeline): US state department internally discussed two-year delay
Posted in Global Warming on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As thousands rally against the 1,900-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands which would stretch through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to Texas, Transcanada’s special access to State Department officials have some wondering if special influences will have more sway than concerns about human health and safety in the decision [...]
Can you live on $9 an hour and what would that look like if suddenly your utility bill was $20 to $30 higher a month? Play the game
Posted in Global Warming, tagged austin energy rate increase, Minimum Wage, poverty on September 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
With the Austin City Council considering an electric rate increase that, as it is currently structured, would greatly impact low income wage earners, perhaps it would help if if we could see what it would be like to walk in a poor person’s shoes. Most Americans know the facts about low-wage work, but many have [...]
Austin Hearing – US State Department on Tar Sands Pipeline, from Canada to Texas
Posted in Global Warming on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
NASA’s James Hansen, a leading climate scientist who rang the first alarm bells nearly 30 years ago, has called the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline “game over” for the climate. The pipeline cannot be allowed to go forward – it’s as simple as that. The State Department is hosting an important public hearing on the [...]
Texas Politics weigh in on the cross state pollution rule once again
Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Coal, Efficiency, Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The States Attorney general is leaping into the environmental fray once again with a filing with the federal appeals court to review the new EPA regulations while the Texas house state affairs hold hearings today, but Governors Perry’s attorney and chief is taking it one step farther filing against four different rules according to the [...]
Austin Energy’s Proposed Rate Increases Hurt Austin’s Residential Consumers and Continues the City’s Corporate Welfare Program
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin Energy, austin texas, rate increase on September 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Consumer, low income and environmental groups say the low-income and low energy use customers will bear a disproportionate share of the proposed Austin Energy rate increase and are calling on Austin Energy customers to attend the second of four hearings of the Electric Utility Commission (EUC) on Monday night, September 19th at the Austin Energy [...]
And the drought in Texas goes on . . .
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Austin City Limits, Climate Prediction Center, drought, Texas on September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The drought in Texas that has fueled wildfires, devastated agriculture and caused water shortages, actually worsened in the past week according to the US Drought monitor’s weekly report. Much of Texas would need 9 to 23 inches of rain over the next month to emerge from drought and that is unlikely to happen. The forecast [...]
Is the EPA Trying to Destroy Rick Perry’s Texas?
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, tagged clean air, csapr, destroy, EPA, obama, president, Rick Perry, Texas on September 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this month Rick Perry denied the reality of climate change at a presidential debate. This week Governor “Good-Hair” has continued his crusade of fact fabrication and blamed the loss of 500 Texas jobs on the EPA and its new regulations (called the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule or CSAPR). This accusation came just after TXU/Luminant, [...]
Perry gets another chance to get the TLLRWDC Commission just right for Simmon’s WCS radioactive waste dump
Posted in Nuclear, Radioactive Waste, tagged Andrews County Texas, Harold Simmons, Rick Perry, Texas, waste control specialists on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Gov. Rick Perry has replaced all six of the Texas commissioners who sit on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission reappointing only two previously serving commissioner. The TLLRWDCC commissioner terms were modified by Senate Bill 1605 as part of the 82nd Legislature giving Perry the ability to replace commissioners whose positions he didn’t [...]
Why the Solyndra solar bankruptcy scandal is a big deal, but not the big deal some are making of it
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Good Government, Nuclear, solar, Tarsands, tagged Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, loan guarantee, Obama administration, solar energy, Solyndra, united states department of energy, white house on September 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
California solar energy company Solyndra had its offices raided last week by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into their bankruptcy and federal loan guarantees they’d received form the Department of Energy. Some critics have cried foul, trying to show how federal money spent on emerging technology is a waste. Others have tried [...]
News Roundup for September 5, 2011
Posted in News Roundup on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a fine Labor Day weekend as we bring you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff looks at a movement to end pensions for public employees. Amy Price is one of just a few progressives running for Houston City Council in 2011, and PDiddie at Brains and Eggs is [...]
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