In an Austin American-Statesman editorial that ran last Saturday, July 2nd, the paper talked quite candidly about the lack of a level playing field in the Texas capital as pointed out by conservative East Texas republican freshman Representative David Simpson and liberal Austin-based Public Citizen director, Tom “Smitty” Smith. The odd man from East Texas Austin [...]
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The fairy tale of Texas politics
Posted in Good Government, tagged Austin American-Statesman, David Simpson, public citizen texas, Texas on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Austin Taxi Industry Influences City Council Race
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, austin city council, Campaign Finance, city of austin, electric cars, Kathie Tovo, randi shade, Taxi, taxis on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although the taxi cab industry in Austin is not often considered a power player in politics, individuals, top executives and owners have spent thousands of dollars in this city council election cycle. In particular, the election for the Austin City Council Place 3 seat has seen substantial amounts of money flow into it from the [...]
Three steps are needed to create a solar boom in Texas
Posted in solar, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, greenhouse gasses, incentives, michael webber, peak demand, renewable energy, solar, TXU, wind on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We can do the same thing for solar that we did for wind. Set a modest goal, say – 4,000 MW by 2020, and require every utility to buy some solar.
Watch my debut on Austin at Issue: Energy for the Future!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, austin at issue, citizen sarah, City Council, clean energy for austin, Energy, Energy Efficiency, klru, kut, matthew johnson, palmer events center, Public Citizen, Renewables on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Here it is. Great job KLRU, KUT and the Statesman for putting together a great show on an important topic! http://www.klru.org/aai/ Unable to embed unfortunately. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Public Citizen participated in developing an energy plan for Austin to cut carbon emissions, use more renewables, and promote energy efficiency. And because we did, I’m about to [...]
What’s Missing from Austin’s Energy Generation Plan Discussion
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Energy, Clean Energy, climate change, Coal, Generation Task Force, Global Warming, renewable energy, wind on February 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Austin American Statesman’s article this morning about Austin’s 2020 energy plan leaves a few things out that are crucial to understanding the costs and benefits of adding more energy efficiency and renewable power to Austin’s generation portfolio. Judging from the rather depressing comments section, many readers took away the unfortunate misconception that poor Austinites [...]
Public Citizen Texas Honors Texas’ Outstanding Public Servants
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 25th anniversary, amarillo, Austin American-Statesman, austin chronicle, austin city council, Austin Energy, awards, claudia grisales, clean economy coalition, corpus christi, david swinford, democracy, doug lewin, environmental journalism, fort worth, gerry sansing, glenn lewis, green building program, greenchoice, Greg Harman, health, las brisas coal plant, lifetime achievement award, lon burnam, pedernales electric cooperative, Public Citizen, rafael anchia, Rodney Ellis, safety, San Antonio, san antonio current, tarrant county, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas outstanding public service, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Victoria, waste control specialists, wendy davis, wes stafford, whistleblower, wind warrior award on November 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
AUSTIN – Public Citizen Texas will be honoring the recipients of this year’s Texas Outstanding Public Service (TOPS) Awards at the organization’s 25th anniversary dinner today. The awardees are local visionaries, recognized experts and celebrated advocates who have aided in the effort to help Texas realize a more environmentally conscious and sustainable energy future. Those [...]
Texas: Sparkly Mythical Wonderland of Green Jobs
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin American-Statesman, green jobs, susan combs, sweetwater, unicorns, wind turbines on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Texas is a sparkly mythical wonderland full of unicorns. And by unicorns, I mean green jobs. And by green jobs, I mean well-paying, long-term jobs ranging from maintenance to operations, project management, and high-tech engineering. Wortham: Unicorns are alive, well and working the wind out west Greg Wortham, Special Contributor Monday, October 05, 2009 Texas [...]
Happy Earth Day Op-Ed
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Austin American-Statesman, Clean Energy, consumption, earth day, Energy Efficiency, environmental defense fund, green jobs, houston chronicle, Public Citizen, Renewables, Sierra Club, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Weatherization on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For your Earth Day enjoyment, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense have written a joint Op-Ed that has been published in both the Austin American Statesman & the Houston Chronicle. So on this day of celebration, Let’s Begin a Better Future Now and Enact Energy Laws to Clear Air, Create Jobs! Check it out: [...]
More Clean Energy Headed Austin’s Way
Posted in Renewables, tagged Austin, Austin American-Statesman, green jobs, kxan, manufacturing jobs, news 8, semiconductor industry, smartspark, solar, solar energy startup, Texas, wildcatting the sun on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember last week, when solar power was ALL OVER THE NEWS? Check out this video of News 8 Austin’s news story from Monday (and look for Smitty, our director, proclaiming that “Now is the time to Wildcat the Sun!”): Also, check out KXAN’s news coverage. The KXAN slant on the story was pretty interesting: they [...]
NRG asks Austin to invest in South Texas nuclear facility expansion
Posted in Nuclear, tagged Austin American-Statesman, Karen Hadden, NRG, Nuclear Power, SEED Coalition, South Texas Project on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Austin American Statesman ran an article yesterday reporting on the City Council’s likely decision to hire a consultant to look into expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear power facility. In February NRG invited the City Council, which owns a 16% stake in the plant, to invest in a project that would double the [...]
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