Austinites rally outside campaign headquarters in solidarity with 12,000 in DC Protestors spell out their message. “SAY NO TO TARSANDS!” - Photo by Don Mason (http://ow.ly/7nbjY) AUSTIN, TX – Campaign staff and volunteers working for President Obama’s re-election got an earful from environmentalists in Austin on Monday, one day after 12,000 people encircled the White House [...]
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Environmentalists Target Obama with Tar Sands Protest
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Global Warming, Tarsands, Toxics, tagged Austin, Keystone Pipeline, transcanada, United States Department of State on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today as arguments inexplicably continue about climate change
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged Austin, climate change, heat record on August 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re going [...]
Austin City Council Run-off Election Debate
Posted in Energy, Good Government, tagged Austin, City Council, debate, election, Energy, kathy tovo, randi shade, run-off, solar on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Solar Austin held a debate between Austin City Council Place 3 candidates Randi Shade and Kathy Tovo. The focus was on energy issues. Here is a brief excerpt from the debates where each candidate addresses a question about how an increase of electricity rates should be handled. The election is this Saturday, June 18. You [...]
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 [...]
NRG could pull out permanently from STP expansion by the end of the 2011 3rd quarter.
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged Austin, Energy, loan guarantee, nrg energy, STP, toshiba, tx on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NRG Energy, Inc. posted their 2010 Full-Year and Fourth Quarter results today. It appears that if no loan guarantees are forthcoming and the company fails to secure sufficient Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) for the STP expansion project by the third quarter of this year, NRG could make a final decision to pull the project. For [...]
New solar farm ground breaking in Pflugerville.
Posted in Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, Business, public citizen texas, renewable, RRE Solar Austin, solar energy, Solar Farm on December 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
RRE Solar Austin held its groundbreaking ceremony in Pflugerville yesterday. This is the first utility scale solar farm, and one of the largest photovoltaic projects in the country, to be built by the company and the first to break ground in the Austin area. Planned to produce 60Mw of solar energy when completed it will [...]
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, [...]
Come tonight to the town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset in Austin
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Austin town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset review – Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of Texas campus. (This auditorium is located in the basement level of Sid Richardson Hall.) All are invited to attend these town [...]
Austin Town Hall Meeting on the TCEQ Sunset
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Austin town hall will take place Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of [...]
Austin Redistricting Hearing
Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged Austin, redistricting, tx on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicial officers or of governing bodies or representatives of political subdivisions or [...]
Rally to Restore Sanity in Austin
Posted in Global Warming, Good Government, Renewables, tagged Austin, capitol, john stewart, Public Citizen, rally, restore, sanity on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come join us tomorrow, Saturday morning, for a satellite rally of John Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” which is happening in Washington D.C. The festivities start at 11am and go till 2pm (a march against the death penalty starts at 3).
Austin poor spend much of their income on electricity
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, conservation, Efficient energy use, electricity, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Household, poverty, Technology on October 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Austin Energy hired a consultant to help determine how its rates compare to those of other utilities in preparation for its plan to substantially raise electricity rates in 2012. The work is ongoing, but an eye-opening statistic has already emerged. Estimates indicate that the average US household’s energy costs are equal to 7% of household income, [...]
Austin Energy offers consumers assistance with charging stations for their new EVs!
Posted in Air Quality, Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Transportation, tagged Air Quality, Austin, Austin Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Charging station, Electric vehicle, emissions reductions, EV, EV incentives, EVs, Global Warming, plug-in hybrids, Plug-In Vehicle, Public Citizen, transportation on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the coming weeks you might notice a sleek, new Nissan LEAF or Chevy Volt cruising past you on the road. Many of the major car companies are introducing electric, plug-in vehicles (EVs) designed for the American family market. They range in cost from about $20,000-$45,000 and are small and practical. Not all EVs run [...]
Report Shows Dangers of Coal Ash Waste Sites Throughout the US
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged ash, Austin, climate change, Coal, coal ash waste, EIP, environmental integrity project, EPA, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, report, study, Texas, waste on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In Winter of 2008 a coal ash slurry pond in Tennessee broke its damn, contaminating miles of downstream waterways and people’s homes with deadly carcinogens and other toxic substances. At the time it was called the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez and brought a wake up call to the EPA that this waste [...]
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