Don’t believe the media narrative that a vote on clean energy was political suicide. In Texas, the Democrats who voted for clean energy and action on climate were all re-elected. And the two/three who lost, all voted NO. The story that isn’t being told is one of outside money, the real culprit in understanding electoral changes.
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Losers on Election Day in Texas had one thing in common: Opposition to climate legislation
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged 2010 elections, ACES, Campaign Finance, chet edwards, ciro rodriguez, independent expenditures, outside money, Solomon Ortiz, stealth PACs, Texas on November 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Texas can meet all our energy needs for next decade through efficiency alone, save $330 per household and create 130,000 new jobs says new report from Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University
Posted in Efficiency, tagged ACES, climate change, Efficiency, green jobs, Kerry Graham Lieberman, senate climate bill, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas is growing. In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Growing communities and growing business usually means building more power plants, which would add to our already significant air quality problems not to mention all of the greenhouse gases we would spew. But, rather than building Megawatts, we should be [...]
Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples says Agriculture Hurt by Federal Climate Legislation – We beg to differ
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, Agriculture, Agriculture Commissioner, climate change, climate change legislation, Texas Department of Agriculture, Todd Staples, Twitter, USDA, Waxman-Markey bill on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the movie/musical “Oklahoma”, we got a musical lesson that the farmer and the cowman should be friends. They seem to have bridged that divide rather well in the intervening decades, but today the question remains whether the farmers and ranchers and the climate should be friends. Agricultural Commissioner Todd Staples certainly doesn’t think [...]
Boxer and Kerry take two steps forward and two steps back on climate, but EPA looks ready to go!
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged ACES, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, CEJAPA, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Congress, EPA, Global Warming, green jobs, Kerry-Boxer, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, senate, solar, waxman-markey on September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This just in from EPA: LOS ANGELES – U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate Summit that the Agency has taken a significant step to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act. The Administrator will announce a proposal requiring large [...]
Tell Texas Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson Not to Grandfather Coal Plants in Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, American Clean Energy and Securities, Coal, coal plant, cornyn, Global Warming, grandfather, hutchinson, john, kay bailey hutchinson, Public Citizen, senator, Texas, tour on September 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In 1977 Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act that provided exemptions to existing coal plants, allowing them to ignore the new emissions standards any new plants would have to adhere to. It was thought these plants would simply age and be retired quickly, but because these plants suddenly became much cheaper to operate [...]
WATCH: Inherit the Hot Air! The US Chamber of Commerce v. Science
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, american clean energy and security act, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Congress, endangerment finding, EPA, funny, Global Warming, Massachusetts v EPA, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, scopes monkey trial, SEED Coalition, SNL, unfrozen caveman lawyer, US Chamber of Commerce, video, waxman-markey on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The US Chamber of Commerce wants to put the science of global warming on trial. Not only that, they themselves claim they want this trial to be similar to the Scopes Monkey Trial where a Tennessee teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution, made even more famous by the play and film “Inherit the [...]
Andy Wilson talks about Energy Citizen Corporate Picnic in Houston
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, energy rally, Global Warming, houston, Public Citizen, waxman-markey on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Why Does Big Oil Hate Our Freedom?
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged #FrontGroupFAIL, ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As you may have read elsewhere on our blog, we tried to attend the “Energy Citizens” rally in Houston yesterday but were turned away. Even far-right teabaggers, brought out to the event by FreedomWorks and a promise of a free meal, weren’t allowed in, despite actually being sympatico with Big Oil’s agenda. The offending item [...]
Houston’s Energy Citizens Company Picnic
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizen event. Billed as a “grassroots” rally against the cap and trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic. About 2500 energy employees were brought by charter bus to the Verizon Wireless [...]
Big Oil Astroturf rally in Houston more company picnic than grassroots campaign
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, green jobs, houston, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your intrepid friends at Public Citizen tried to attend the astroturf “Energy Citizens” rally yesterday in Houston. We’re busy pulling together our bloggings and all the footage we shot, but keep checking back here for updates throughout the day. We were not allowed in the meeting, as we did not work for an energy company, [...]
UPDATED: Grassroots vs Astroturf- the difference in citizen activism
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACCCE, ACES, API, astroturf, Balanced Energy choices, Big Oil, Campaign Finance, Citizen Power, climate change, Global Warming, Grass roots, grassroots politics, Lloyd Doggett, Public Citizen, Waxman-Markey bill on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Greenpeace has just obtained an internal API memo detailing their astroturf plans. You can read the memo and Greenpeace’s reply here. Job “whale” done, Greenpeace! *** Most people have a good general conception of what a real grassroots movement looks like: citizens get outraged over some injustice or inequity and get organized and get [...]
Sometimes your leaders listen: Lloyd Doggett and the Safe Markets Development Act
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, Austin, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Energy, climate change, congressman lloyd doggett, Global Warming, Lloyd Doggett, Waxman-Markey bill on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been disappointed by the process that the American Clean Energy and Security Act has gone through recently, so a few weeks ago I went to go see my Congressman during his “neighborhood office hours” (at the Randall’s at the corner of William Cannon and MoPac) and talk to him about climate change. Then this [...]
Great Opportunity for Latino Leaders to Influence Climate Change Legislation
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, american clean energy and security act, climate change, congressman gonzalez, Gene Green, houston, patricia gonzalez, San Antonio, wcvi, william c velasquez institute, willie velasguez institute on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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