Wanna do something green to start off Earth Week? You can do this from your desk. Quick and easy: Sign up as a supporter for Clean Energy for Austin. Tell a friend or co-worker to sign on too!* Austin City Council will vote on this forward-thinking energy plan this week! Clean Energy for Austin is [...]
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Monday’s Earth Week Action: Get One Person to sign on to Clean Energy for Austin!
Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, clean energy for austin, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, environmental defense fund, renewable energy, resource and climate protection plan, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Town Hall Meeting on Energy Plan for Austin TONIGHT
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, City Council, Clean Energy, clean energy for austin coalition, Efficiency, energy plan, fayette coal plant, Lee Leffingwell, mayor, palmer events center, Public Citizen, Renewables, solar, wind on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell will host a town hall meeting on an energy plan for Austin Energy that would establish our own carbon dioxide cap and reduction plan. The great news is that by 2020, Austin’s investments in solar, wind and energy efficiency would allow us to reduce our dependence on the Fayette coal [...]
Businesses, Environmental and Low-Income Groups Unite Behind Energy Plan
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 20/20, Air Quality, Applied Materials, austin city council, Austin Energy, cary ferchill, Clean Energy, clean energy for austin, coal plant, coalition, electric utility, electric utility commission, Energy Efficiency, flexibility, fossil fuel reliance, foundation communities, generation and resource planning task force, green businesses, health, Lee Leffingwell, low income residents, matthew johnson, mayor, natural gas, nonprofits, nuclear plant, phillip schmandt, Public Citizen, renewable energy, resource and climate protection plan, Sierra Club, solar, Solar Austin, steve taylor, sunshine mathon, town hall, Weatherization, wind on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dozens of businesses and nonprofit organizations as well as more than 200 citizens have formed Clean Energy for Austin, a coalition whose purpose is to push Austin City Council to adopt a clean energy plan. Specifically, the coalition supports the passage of Austin Energy’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan and recommendations of a city task [...]
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 [...]
Austin Mayor to Host Town Hall Meeting on Energy Generation Plan
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, austin generation resource planning task force, energy generation plan, energy resources, faceboook, fayette coal plant, goundhog day, Lee Leffingwell, Public Citizen, puxsutawney phill, Texas on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I sure hope you don’t have any plans for the evening of Monday, February 22nd, because it is going to be the social event of the season (and by season, I mean this 6-week period of rain and cold we’re getting due to that pesky groundhog’s shadow prediction — curse you Punxsutawny Phil!). From 6-8pm [...]
Energy Generation Plan Presented to Austin City Council
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, solar, tagged Air Quality, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, cap and reduction, Clean Energy, climate protection plan, electric utility commission, emissions reductions, Energy Efficiency, fayette coal plant, generation plan, green jobs, pollution, Public Citizen, renewable energy, renewable energy credits, resource management commission, Roger Duncan, solar, Texas, town hall, wind on February 4, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Last Thursday Austin Energy General Manager Roger Duncan briefed Austin City Council on the utility’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan. This plan is the culmination of 18 months of input from the public, the creation of a generation resource task force of various stakeholders to review various energy plans and make recommendations, and support and [...]
Public Citizen Welcomes Opportunity for Senate to Hold Rogue Utility CPS Energy Accountable
Posted in Energy, Good Government, Nuclear, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, CPS Energy, low income families, municipal utilities, Nuclear Power, public citizen texas, San Antonio, senate business and commerce, South Texas Project, Texas, Tom "Smitty" Smith on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office The latest interim charge of the state Senate Business and Commerce Committee provides a welcome opportunity for Texas to rein in rogue utilities like CPS Energy of San Antonio. Now tasked with studying the costs of municipally owned utilities’ generation plans and their impacts [...]
Attention: Green businesses and Austinites!
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged Applied Materials, Austin, Austin Energy, Carbon Dioxide, co2, copenhagen, Energy Efficiency, energy plan, environmental defense fund, fayette coal plant, greenling organic delivery, matt johnson, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, solar, Texas, wind on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you were as frustrated as I was watching world leaders dither in Copenhagen while the Earth heats up and island nations continue making evacuation plans, there is good news on the horizon for Austin. Austin Energy has developed a consensus plan that would establish our own CO2 cap and reduction plan. The great news [...]
Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo
Posted in Global Warming, tagged alternative transportation, austin climate protection conference and expo, austin climate protection plan, Austin Energy, climate change, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, green building, mass transportation, palmer events center, renewable energy, urban planning, water conservation on January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Austin Energy is hosting the Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo this Friday and Saturday, January 15th and 16th from 10am to 5pm at the Palmer Events Center. Admission is free to the public and participating professionals, but you’ve still gotta register. The 2nd annual expo will feature: Expo floor will feature dozens of exhibits [...]
Austin Community College: A Leader in Sustainability
Posted in Global Warming, tagged acc, acc green pass program, austin community college, Austin Energy, austin texas, bus passes, energy efficieny cars, green building, green technology, parking garage, powerpoint, recycling, renewable energy program, rio grande campus, semiconductor industry, solar, solar installer, sustainability, sustainable ACC, times magazine on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a student at Austin Community College, I have witnessed the school adopt many environmental programs and truly set a great example to its student as to how be good stewards of our environment. The college has been recently featured in the Times magazine to recognize its new Renewable Energy Program, When Austin’s semiconductor industry [...]
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 [...]
Participate in an anti-coal demonstration at Austin City Council meeting Thursday!
Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged asthma, Austin, Austin Energy, austin has a dirty secret, City Council, city of austin, clean air task force, Clean Energy, coal kills, day of the dead, fayette coal plant, health impacts of coal, quit coal, Texas on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the Day of the Dead just around the corner, it’s the time of year to remember friends and family members who have died. That’s why we’ve decided to hold a demonstration at City Hall on Thursday at noon, wearing black, to recognize those who have died from complications related to living around the City [...]
Public Citizen Salutes Roger Duncan on His Retirement
Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, distribut, Energy Efficiency, Public Citizen, renewable energy, Roger Duncan on October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Statement from Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Roger Duncan announced his retirement today. Although it is sad to see a dedicated public servant move on, Public Citizen congratulates him on a fine career as general manager of Austin Energy, a municipal power company. Austin is a national and world leader in fighting [...]
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