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Alliance for Clean Texas Town Hall Meeting in Victoria, TX

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged alliance for a clean texas, clean air, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT) hosts another town hall addressing TCEQ sunset.

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TCEQ Sunset Town Halls – Victoria

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged ACT, alliance for a clean texas, Austin, climate change, Coal, commission, EPA, glenn hegar, Global Warming, larry soward, Public Citizen, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas on November 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Texans living around the Victoria region attended a town hall in September to express their concerns about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on a number of different issues, including the proposed White Stallion coal plant in Bay City. On the panel were Sunset Commission Chairman Sen. Glenn Hegar, former TCEQ commissioner Larry Soward, [...]

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Countdown: 13 Days Left in Legislative Session, 7 High Priority Bills Left

Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Renewables, tagged 81st session, alliance for a clean texas, anchia, averitt, burnam, business and commerce, energy resources, environmental regulation, fraser, house, isett, leibowitz, senate, state affairs, Texas Legislature, transportation and homeland security, watson on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Original post found at Alliance for a Clean Texas. With the deadline for House bills to pass third reading last Friday at midnight, the 81st Session entered its final phase. The good news is that seven of ACT’s high priority bills have made it to the last two weeks of the session. Here’s a run-down [...]

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Medical Groups Join Fight for Clean Air – May 4

Posted in Toxics, tagged alliance for a clean texas, clean air, HB 1839, HB 3582, HB 4298, HB 4581, Health Professionals for Clean Air, house environmental regulation, sb 16, texas medical association on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Original post created for the Alliance for a Clean Texas: Over the past weekend, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) adopted the following resolution: BE IT RESOLVED, That the Texas Medical Association (TMA) urges our state, local, and federal government leaders and legislators to act promptly and aggressively to reduce the health burden of pollution from [...]

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News from Envirnonmental Organizations around the State – April 6

Posted in Toxics, Uncategorized, tagged alliance for a clean texas, clean air, earth day 5k, environmental education, farmers market, galveston-houston association for smog prevention, ghasp, growth, hb 3265, hb 3428, hill country, hill country alliance, house county affairs, houston, houston earth day, mothers for clean air, water on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Happy Monday everybody! Check out the latest from our friends at Alliance for a Clean Texas. Original post can be found here. This week, ACT is happy to bring reports from two organizations doing great work on behalf of their local communities. In Houston, the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP) is presenting Houston Earth [...]

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Week of March 18: Recap

Posted in Energy, tagged 81st session, alliance for a clean texas, biomass, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, floor pass, green jobs, house and state senate affairs committee, house energy resources, house environmental regulation, mark strama, Public Citizen, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, representative gallego, Rodney Ellis, rps, senator lucio, solar, solar day, sxsw, Texas Legislature, wind on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last week was pretty crazy for Austin — SXSW came in like a lion, and I’ll admit I am quite pleased that the city is laying quietly like a lamb once again. But though Sixth Street may be back to its sleepy Monday morning self, Public Citizen’s office is back in full swing. We’ve got [...]

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Public Citizen Texas… Tweeting the Day Away

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ACT, alliance for a clean texas, austin city council meeting, Austin Energy, dc, old man stewart, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, PublicCitizenTX, Texas, texas league of conservation voters, tlcv, Twitter, washington, webberville solar plant on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We caved. Public Citizen Texas is on Twitter. Follow us here! Don’t worry though, we at PublicCitizenTX will be careful to use our Twitter powers for good, not evil. We’ll use tweets to keep you updated on new blog posts, legislative action alerts, and the occassional inside scoop from a city council meeting or committee [...]

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Lobbying for Dummies

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alliance for a clean texas, lobby day, lobbying on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you missed the Alliance for a Clean Texas lobby day last week, you missed out on a great opportunity for some face time with your representatives and their staff members. But that doesn’t mean that your chance to catch your legislator’s attention has passed. Here’s some advice from our lobby day training session for [...]

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What’s in Store for the 81st Legislative Session

Posted in Efficiency, Renewables, tagged ACEEE, alliance for a clean texas, american council for an energy effient economy, appliance efficiency standards, committee assignments, energy demand, Energy Efficiency, incentives, LoanSTAR, renewable energy, Renewables, retrofits, solar, systems benefit fund, Texas, utilties code, wind, wind energy on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

With the announcement of the Texas Legislature Committee rosters, I thought that some light should be shed on the 2009 Legislative Recommendations as posted by the Alliance for a Clean Texas. You can read the full reports here, but here’s a quick-read version for renewable energy and energy efficiency issues: Diversify our Renewable Energy Mix. [...]

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Green Jobs, Clean Power!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, alliance for a clean texas, California, clean jobs, climate change, denver museum of nature, Energy Efficiency, green power, Lloyd Doggett, mark strama, obama, Rodney Ellis, solar, state legislature, Texas, texas capitol, van jones, wind energy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bright and early yesterday morning, US Representative Lloyd Doggett, State Senator Rodney Ellis, State Representative Mark Strama, and environmental and civil rights advocate Van Jones stood together to tout the Alliance for a Clean Texas’ Texas Energy Future: Clean Jobs, Green Power Conference. Rodney Ellis opened up the press conference, stating that this year’s legislative [...]

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ACT Lobby Day and Texas Energy Future Conference

Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACT, advocacy training, alliance for a clean texas, clean power, conference, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, lobby day, Public Citizen, Texas, texas energy future, van jones on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Join Public Citizen and the other Alliance for a Clean Texas member organizations in promoting a create a clean energy economy in Texas! We will lobby the Legislature to promote energy efficiency and renewables and implement a moratorium on coal. By working together, we can keep Texas clean, reduce risks to human health, and create [...]

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