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Medical Groups Join Fight for Clean Air – May 4

Posted in Toxics, tagged alliance for a clean texas, clean air, HB 1839, HB 3582, HB 4298, HB 4581, Health Professionals for Clean Air, house environmental regulation, sb 16, texas medical association on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Original post created for the Alliance for a Clean Texas: Over the past weekend, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) adopted the following resolution: BE IT RESOLVED, That the Texas Medical Association (TMA) urges our state, local, and federal government leaders and legislators to act promptly and aggressively to reduce the health burden of pollution from [...]

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Earth Day Alert: STOP the fast-tracking of water permits for nukes

Posted in Nuclear, tagged dan flynn, ercot, governor perry, house environmental regulation, Luminant, nuclear plant, Nuclear Power, water permit on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

HB 2721 threatens to fast-track water permits for nuclear plants, which use vast quantities of water. Water is precious, and Governor Perry has just requested federal aid for all 254 counties in Texas due to statewide drought. Water permits should be given careful scrutiny, and not be rushed. This bill, which will be heard tomorrow [...]

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Good Bills Being Heard in House Environmental Reg

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged air pollution, capitol, clean air act, coal combustion waste, committee hearing, Global Warming, hb 1450, hb 3422, hb 3428, hb 557, hb 769, house environmental regulation, industrial waste, lon burnam, mercury, ozone, Public Citizen, rep. burnam, rep. hernandez, rep. rodriguez, Texas, texas state capitol on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In addition to Lon Burnam’s HB 3423, there are five other good bills that will be heard in the House Environmental Regulation Committee this Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 10:30 am or upon adjournment of the House in the Capital extension – Hearing room E1.014. We are incouraging everyone who has a few minutes to [...]

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Week of March 18: Recap

Posted in Energy, tagged 81st session, alliance for a clean texas, biomass, Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency, floor pass, green jobs, house and state senate affairs committee, house energy resources, house environmental regulation, mark strama, Public Citizen, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, representative gallego, Rodney Ellis, rps, senator lucio, solar, solar day, sxsw, Texas Legislature, wind on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last week was pretty crazy for Austin — SXSW came in like a lion, and I’ll admit I am quite pleased that the city is laying quietly like a lamb once again. But though Sixth Street may be back to its sleepy Monday morning self, Public Citizen’s office is back in full swing. We’ve got [...]

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