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Citizen Sarah going on hiatus

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged citizen sarah, old settler's on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Hey folks! Just letting you know that I’m going to be taking a little summer-time breather from Public Citizen. All this advocacy awesomeness is my passion and has been invigorating, but I need to unplug for a little while. Expect to see me again sometime this July! If you’re going to miss me, miss me [...]

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Get to Know an Activist: Citizen Sarah

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Activism, activist, Austin, citizen sarah, get to know an activist, Public Citizen, sarah mcdonald on March 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Have you ever wondered, “who is that citizensarah who writes so many engaging and informative articles on Texas Vox?” Well, today is your lucky day because I had a chance to temporarily slow down our queen blogging bee to ask her a few questions and learn about all the other things she does at Public [...]

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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 [...]

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TCEQ Gives Green Light to Another Texas Coal Plant

Posted in Global Warming, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, army corps of engineers, Carbon Dioxide, citizen sarah, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, copenhagen, denmark, environmental integrity project, eva hernandez, Global Warming, Karen Hadden, maximum achievable control technology, mercury, nox, NRG, nrg limestone, ozone, particulate matter, paul rolke, public citizen texas, robertson county our land our lives, robertson couny, ryan rittenhouse, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, smog, soah, sox, state office of administrative hearings, sunset commission, sunset review, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The dramatic irony of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decision this morning to grant the NRG Limestone Coal Plant an air permit (and therefore permission to begin construction on a third smokestack) is painful. At the very moment that leaders from around the world are meeting to come to an international agreement to [...]

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Copenhagen Negotiations begin today!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged citizen sarah, climate change, climate justice, cop15, copenhagen, daily texan, Global Warming, San Antonio, southwest workers union on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The international climate negotiations in Copenhagen begin today, and will continue until December 18th. No time for a full reckoning now of what this means in the big picture, what’s at stake, and what to expect — but since others have done a great job already, at the moment there’s no need to. Plus, there [...]

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David Garza to play Public Citizen Benefit Show!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged acl 2009, Austin, barr mansion, benefit, citizen sarah, dancing, david garza, fund raiser, Jim Hightower, live music, membership, music, party, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Rob Weissman, support, Texas, Tom "Smitty" Smith on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Did you doubt my magic? Think that we wouldn’t get any music for our 25th anniversary celebration and that you’d have to listen to Citizen Sarah muddle through Oh My Darlin’ on the baby squeezebox? Lucky for y’all my lovelies, my nightly practice sessions have been for naught (not sure if that will be any [...]

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Why Does Big Oil Hate Our Freedom?

Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged #FrontGroupFAIL, ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »

As you may have read elsewhere on our blog, we tried to attend the “Energy Citizens” rally in Houston yesterday but were turned away. Even far-right teabaggers, brought out to the event by FreedomWorks and a promise of a free meal, weren’t allowed in, despite actually being sympatico with Big Oil’s agenda. The offending item [...]

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Houston’s Energy Citizens Company Picnic

Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »

Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizen event. Billed as a “grassroots” rally against the cap and trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic. About 2500 energy employees were brought by charter bus to the Verizon Wireless [...]

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So Much for the Solar Session

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged anchia, citizen sarah, fraser, Global Warming, green fee bill, green fleets, green jobs, hb 1243, larry mcmurtry, leonard cohen, no regrets, plug-in hybrids, public citizen texas, solar, Texas, Texas Legislature, tom waits, townes van zandt, warren chisum, Weatherization on June 1, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Well, the sun has just about gone down on the so-called “solar session”. Today is Sine Die — the last day of the legislative session. Friday night, HB 1243 – solar’s last lifeline — was killed on the House floor. Earlier in the week, Rep. Warren Chisum called for a strict enforcement of the House [...]

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