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Say No To The Las Brisas “Coal” Plant

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged blake farenthold, clean economy coalition, Coal, coke, connie scott, corpus christi, EPA, facebook, joe adame, juan hinojosa, judith zaffirini, las brisas, Lisa Jackson, opic, pet-coke, petroleum coke, rebecca lyons, TCEQ, Texas, todd hunter, youtube on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Towards the end of January an independent panel of judges, the Office of Public Interest Counsel, and the EPA all recommended that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality deny the proposed permit for the Las Brisas petroleum-coke burning plant based on its multiple deficiencies and clear violations of the Clean Air Act. The Perry-appointed commissioners [...]

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Three steps forward, two steps back on campaign finance in Congress today

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged charlie gonzalez, Coffee Party, Coffee Party livestream convention, Congress, DISCLOSE Act, Eric Byler, facebook, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, Lawrence Lessig, Mark McKinnon, politics, United States on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the US House Administration Committee voted the Fair Elections Now Act out of committee. San Antonio Representative Charlie Gonzalez cast a decisive vote in favor of the bill, putting a bill that would give optional public financing to all Congressional candidates for further than it has ever gone before. Tell Charlie Gonzalez how you [...]

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Austin Energy and the EGRSO: EUC Chairman Schmandt weighs in

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged austin city council, Austin Energy, EGRSO, electric utility commission, facebook, Friday Night Lights, heliovolt, Home Depot, LegalZoom, phillip schmandt on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For those in Austin who don’t know, the EGRSO (the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office… I had to look it up too) gets a substantial portion of its funding from the municipally-owned utility Austin Energy. What does this office do? From its city website: [The EGRSO] implements the City of Austin Economic Development Policy [...]

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ReEnergize Texas Aids “Green Fee” Campaigns Statewide at 7 Texas Colleges

Posted in Global Warming, tagged 2009 texas legislative session, 81st legislative session, aggies, campaigns, colleges, environmental service fees, facebook, florida, green fee, hb 3353, house bill 3353, reenergize texas, rice university, texas a&m, video, vimeo on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Posted by Trevor Lovell Having passed House Bill 3353 (known as the “green fee bill,” it was one of the few green bills passed this session and made into law) in the 2009 Texas Legislative Session, the student leaders that comprise the ReEnergize Texas coalition knew they had much work ahead of them. The legislation [...]

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Austin City Council Coal Action Success

Posted in Coal, tagged austin city council, austin has a dirty secret, austin texas, city hall, Coal, facebook, fayette coal plant, health impacts of coal, quit coal, ryan rittenhouse on October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Many thanks to everyone that made it to the Austin City Council meeting yesterday for an anti-coal demonstration! Twenty five to thirty concerned citizens stood up in City Council chambers, dressed in black to represent the yearly moralities from our Fayette Coal Plant, as Ryan Rittenhouse addressed the Council. Check out the video below for [...]

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San Antonio Nuclear Showdown TONIGHT

Posted in Nuclear, tagged clean technology forum, CPS Energy, facebook, julian castro, kstx, lanny sinkin, michael kotara, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Public Citizen, public radio, San Antonio, san antonio town hall, solar san antonio, South Texas Project, STP, terry gildea, Texas, texas public radio, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Twitter on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

UPDATE: The streaming audio from last night’s event was, unfortunately, very hard to listen to — but folks who weren’t willing to wade through the feedback can watch our video of the town hall in its entirety, which we should be able to post in the next couple days Tonight KSTX will host a Town [...]

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Voter ID Bill in Committee Tuesday, Oppose Today!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged committee hearing, facebook, laurie vanhoose, texas state senate, voter id, voter suppression on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This Tuesday, March 10th starting at 9 am the entire Texas Senate will hold a massive hearing on SB 362, a voter suppression bill that would require voters to show multiple forms of photo identification in order to vote at the polls. Don’t think having to show ID to vote sounds that bad? Think about [...]

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