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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abbott, Barnett shale, bill white, bryan, coalition for life, college station, david dewhurst, democrats, drilling reform, health care, perry, republicans, rob curnock, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas progressive alliance on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Why not enjoy these posts from the Texas Progressive Alliance along with the beautiful spring weather? CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme sees vast differences between Perry, his bud David Dewhurst and Democrat Bill White. Democrats are for a robust public education while Republicans are doing their darnedest to kill it. Are you playing the Barnett [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bill white, brains and eggs, bryan, burnt orange report, chamber of commerce, college station, dallas, democrats, EPA, eye on williamson, health care, homeowners insurance, lakeisha rogers, left of college station, lewisville, louis gohmert, march madness, off the kuff, phillip martin, proposed ozone standards, public hearing, republicans, rick green, Rick Perry, school districts, school finance, south texas chisme, tax dodging, tea bagger, Texas, texas progressive alliance, texas supreme court, texas-mexico border, texaskaos, txsharon on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly blog roundup will reach 32 million more Americans regardless of their pre-existing conditions. Last week, TXsharon made a video statement at the EPA Public Hearing on the proposed ozone standards. Who Needs a Proctologist when you have former State Representative Rick Green running for the Texas Supreme Court? This week [...]

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Recap: Roll Beyond Coal Tour

Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Austin, bay city, clean air act, clean economy coalition, coal block, coal plant, college station, corpus christi, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal climate change legislation, flex permits, grandfathering, grassroots, H.R. 2454, houston, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, lone star chapter, Multi-County Coalition, no coal coalition, public citizen texas, roll beyond coal, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, T.P.O.W.E.R., TCEQ, Texans Protecting Our Water Environment and Resources, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Waco on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The November/December edition of Public Citizen News, a bi-monthly newsletter distributed to Public Citizen members, featured this article on our statewide “Roll Beyond Coal” Tour. Since not all of you out there get the newsletter, I thought I’d share: ‘Roll Beyond Coal’ Tours Texas By Geena Wardaki It’s not often that you lug a 20-foot-tall [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Barnett shale, bay area houston, buffalo bayou, cameron todd willingham, college station, couldbetrue, drilling reform, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, eye on williamson, governor perry, homelessness, houston, human rights, kay bailey hutchison, kbh, libby shaw, mean rachel, off the kuff, Public Citizen, refinish69, south texas, south texas chisme, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texas vox, tort reform, trans-texas corridor, transportation, ttc, white oak bayou on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Progressive Alliance celebrates the start of early voting for the 2009 elections with its always on time weekly blog roundup. Human tragedies are mounting in the Barnett Shale as study after study shows high levels of toxins in the air. The only ones who can’t seem to find anything wrong are the regulators. [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, Uncategorized, tagged Barnett shale, carcinogens, climate change, college station, drilling reform, easter lemming, economy, Energy, farouk shami, glenn beck, hank gilbert, john cornyn, lewisville isd, natural gas, neurotoxins, obama, Rick Perry, texas a&m, texas liberal, tom schieffer on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup. BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings “amazing and very high” Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to Barnett Shale area! Take a deep breath before you read this study because [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bryan, ciro rodriguez, climate bill, climate change, college station, david dewhurst, debra medina, democrats, fire, gas drilling, gop, governor perry, john carter, kay bailey hutchison, kbh, lewisville, michael vick, nra, racism, republicans, sarah palin, south texas, Texas, texas progressive alliance, toxic materials, unemployment insurance, waxman-markey on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here we are in August, and like every other week it’s time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. TXsharon needs your help to Expose This Dirty Video. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme calls out KBH and the GOP for using racism and the NRA to get out the vote in 2010. Having a competent, [...]

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Mayors to the Rescue on Climate Change

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, Carbon Dioxide, City Government, Clean Energy, climate change, Climate Protection Agreement, co2, college station, emissions, Kyoto, Local Government, Mayors, Seattle, Texas, wind on May 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Climate change is clearly an important issue, and there is a lot that needs to be done about it at all levels of society. Fortunately there have been individuals and localities that have made great efforts to reduce their carbon footprint, and this should be applauded. I want to focus on a particular success in [...]

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ReEnergize Texas’ Green Fee Bill Passes Senate Committee 5-0

Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, college station, committee on higher education, earth day, el paso, green fee bill, reenergize texas, San Antonio, shapleigh, texas a&m, texas tech university, trevor lovell, university of texas el paso, zaffirini on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Original post found at the ReEnergize Texas blog, courtesy of Trevor Lovell: At a hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education today SB 2182, known as the green fee bill, “was reported favorably to the Calendars Committee by unanimous vote, clearing another hurdle on its way to becoming law. Only two weeks ago [...]

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