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Georgetown Council Snubs Students Over Nuclear Power

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Clean Water Action, connor hanrahan, cooperative, CPS Energy, david foster, georgetown, georgetown city council, georgetown utility services, mayor, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, pec, pedernales electric coop, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, Renewables, san antonio city council, seak, southwestern universitys, students, students for environmental activism and knowledge, Texas on November 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Original post can be found at the ReEnergize Texas Blog On Tuesday, students from Southwestern University’s Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge (SEAK) had intended to speak before the Georgetown City Council regarding the 20 year energy plan for their city. They had registered an agenda item with the City Secretary’s Office, asked all the [...]

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San Antonio Protest of Nuclear Reactors TOMORROW, Thursday Sept. 10

Posted in Global Warming, tagged AGUA, cancer, Clean Water Action, CPS, Energia Mia, Energy Efficiency, environment texas, genetic damage, geothermal, green jobs, Highland Hills and Jefferson Heights Neighborhood Associations, Nuclear Power, nuclear reactors, Project Verde, Public Citizen, renewable energy, San Antonio, San Antonio Area Progressive Action Coalition, SEED Coalition, solar, South Texas Project, Southwest Workers’ Union, STP, Texas, the Alamo Group of the Sierra Club, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, the Green Party, the Texas Drought Project, wind on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Hey San Antonio! There will be a protest against nuclear power tomorrow at lunchtime downtown outside of City Hall. Join us and the rest of the Energia Mia coalition and make your voice heard! Details below. WHAT: Protest against CPS Energy’s pursuit of more nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project. Not only is nuclear [...]

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Meet Smitty, Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american changemaker, campaigns for people, Clean Water Action, environmental hero, gary, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, greenwashing, indiana, nuclear plants, power plants, public citizen texas, sustainlane, texans for public justice, texas ratepayer's organization to save energy, Tom "Smitty" Smith, valparaiso university on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

SustainLane, an on-line “people powered sustainability guide”, recently wrote an in-depth profile piece on Public Citizen’s own Tom “Smitty” Smith. For an excellent glimpse of the man behind the machine, our very own white-hat-wearing fearless leader and official “American Changemaker,” check out the following: ‘Smitty’ Wrangles Texans for Environmental Battles by Amy Linn, SustainLane Staff [...]

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Voter Registration Deadline and Environmental Candidate Forum this Thursday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american youthworks, Austin, Austin American-Statesman, austin carshare, Austin EcoNetwork, austin metro trails and greenways, Austin Permaculture Guild, Central Texas Zero Waste Alliance, Citizen Gardner, city of austin, Clean Water Action, election day, environment texas, environmental candidate forum, municipal elections, north austin, OHPEN, PODER, Public Citizen, Save Barton Creek Association, Save Our Springs Alliance, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, Solar Austin, Sustainable Food Center, Texas, Texas Campaign for the Environment, texas climate emergency campaign, Texas Environmental Democrats, Texas Green Network, travis county, voter registration, williamson county on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Want to vote in the upcoming City of Austin Municipal Elections? The deadline to vote in the May 9th elections is this Thursday, March 9th. Says the Statesman: To be eligible to vote for mayor or city council members or ballot initiatives in Travis County communities, you must mail a registration application to the Travis [...]

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NRG Coal Plant Hearing Protest

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Water Action, co2, coal plant, environment texas, EPA, epa vs mass, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, Karen Hadden, luke metzger, nrg limestone, permit application, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, SEED Coalition, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, texas climate emergency campaign, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last Friday two administrative law judges refused to hear testimony on the impact of carbon dioxide emissions during the permitting process for the NRG Limestone coal-fired power plant. The contested case hearing for NRG’s air quality permit application will be going on all week long, but testimony on the proposed plant’s contribution to global warming [...]

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Will the Pedernales Board get the message?

Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Clean Water Action, Efficiency, PEC4U, Pedernales, Renewables on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While the Statesman covered the hubbub around the PEC Board’s agreement to cut their salary more than 40%, that wasn’t the only news from the first meeting of the new Board yesterday. Ric Sternberg of PEC4U, et al, delivered over 4000 letters and postcards to the new Board from Pedernales members demanding more conservation, efficiency, [...]

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