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Jon Stewart gets ACES Right!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged cap and trade, cap'n trade, climate bill, john stewart, steven chu, the daily show, waxman-markey on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you missed Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, you did not get to see John Stewart and guest Steven Chu (Obama’s Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy) discuss the Waxman-Markey climate bill and America’s energy future. For those who missed it here are some highlights: Jon Stewart Jizz-Ams in Front of Children – [...]

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Act Now To Stop New Coal and Nuclear Subsidy

Posted in Coal, Energy, Nuclear, tagged cap and trade, clean coal, Coal, comanch peak, hb 4525, manufacturing plants, Nuclear, risk, South Texas Project, subsidy, Texas Legislature, texas senate on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A bill currently moving in the Texas Legislature, HB 4525, would create new state subsidy of $50 million each for new nuclear and coal plants. We need your help to stop this pork bill from passing. Call your Senator now and tell them that nuclear power doesn’t need taxpayer help! Although the claim of HB [...]

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House Committee Passes Landmark Clean Energy Legislation

Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, allowances, american clean energy and security act, andy wilson, cap and trade, carbon credits, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, charlie melancon, climate change, ed markey, energy and commerce committee, EPA, Gene Green, giveaways, Global Warming, government accountability office, green jobs, henry waxman, hr 2454, ipcc, jim matheson, Joe Barton, john barrow, mike ross, president obama, rick boucher, union of concerned scientists on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Public Citizen disappointed by process as Big Money works to weaken, kill bill Statement by Andy Wilson, Global Warming Program Director, Texas Office This evening, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES or ACESA), sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), by a [...]

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Texas Voters Support Climate Change Bill, According to Survey

Posted in Global Warming, tagged acesa, american clean energy and security act, arizona, California, cap and trade, charlie gonzalez, Congress, Gene Green, house energy and commerce, latino leadership, los angeles, San Antonio, tejanos for a better future, Texas, wcvi, willie velasquez institute on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Excellent news from San Antonio! One: According to a new poll by the Willie Velasquez Institute, the majority of Texans are in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA), the big cap and trade bill currently being debated in Congress. Two: Latino leaders and organizations in San Antonio have formed a coalition [...]

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Texas religious leaders lean on Congressman Charlie Gonzalez

Posted in Global Warming, tagged cap and trade, charlie gonzalez, Clean Energy, energy independence, Global Warming, green jobs, national security, religious leaders, san antonio express news, texas interfaith power and light on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As we’ve said before, there are a lot of good reasons to support a federal cap and trade bill: it would address the looming threat of global warming, create thousands of new green jobs while kick-starting a the clean energy economy, increase national security by achieving energy independence, and done right could even address long-entrenched [...]

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Friday Recommended Reading

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, tagged andrews waste dump, cap and trade, carbon offsets, carbonfund, climate change, costs of inaction, greenhouse gasses, houston chronicle, mayland, net metering, New York Times, nuclear waste, nuclear waste dump, photovoltaics world, Washington Post, waxman-markey on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Time for a Friday wrap-up, all the news that’s fit to link: The Cost of Climate Inaction, Op-Ed in the Washington Post An Affordable Salvation, New York Times Op-Ed about the benefits of cap and trade Carbon Offsets in Waxman-Markey Bill, An Overview, Carbonfund.org Blog Maryland Passes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, SustainableBusiness.com News Cap and [...]

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EPA’s Declaration that Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public is Long Overdue

Posted in Global Warming, tagged andy wilson, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, citizen andy, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, Congress, drought, endangerment finding, EPA, Gene Green, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, house energy and commerce, Joe Barton, Lisa Jackson, lowered crop yields, Markey, mass v epa, michael burgess, president obama, Public Citizen, supreme court, Texas, Waxman on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

NEWSFLASH! Carbon Dioxide emissions may represent a threat to public health or welfare. Shocking, I know. But what is old news to the rest of us, released in the form of a proposed endangerment finding by the EPA, is actually a really big deal. Environmentalists and concerned citizens alike have been waiting years for this [...]

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News Roundup – Scary Yuletide Ghost of Christmas Future edition

Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged cap and trade, Christmas, Coal, Global Warming, natural gas, particulate matter, pickens plan, PM, soot on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The real question is, will we at Texas Vox run out of holiday references before tomorrow or not? Some scary, scary stuff out there in the past few days we wanted to show you, plus some extra holiday snark for all of you. Haven’t we been saying how bad coal is? Some families in Tennessee [...]

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