A survey done by Solar Austin at the beginning of 2012 shows there are at least 615 full-time solar energy jobs in Austin. These jobs include manufacturing, R&D, solar installation, financial and engineering consultants. Adding standard jobs multipliers the total direct and indirect employment supported by the Austin solar industry is 1,180 to 2,190 jobs. [...]
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Solar Reaches Major Employer Status in Austin, But for How Long?
Posted in Renewables, solar, tagged Austin, jobs, renewable energy, San Antonio, solar energy on February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Texas Enterprise Fund Grantees Failed to Deliver Jobs
Posted in Good Government, tagged jobs, Rick Perry, texans for public justice, texas enterprise fund on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new Texans for Public Justice report finds that most of Governor Rick Perry’s Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) projects failed to deliver on their 2010 job promises. The study analyzes compliance reports filed by 65 companies that received $350 million to create Texas jobs in 2010. “Governor Perry’s jobs’ stimulus program is a classic example [...]
Coal Plants Deliver Only A Fraction of the Jobs Promised
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, jobs on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a New York Times piece, they report on a study by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies in Chattanooga, TN, which takes an in-depth look at the promises of jobs made by builders of new coal plants. No one should be surprised to learn that when wooing a community, developers in just about every [...]
Local, Small Businesses Benefit from Stimulus
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, green jobs, Renewables, solar, tagged doe, economy, green economy, green jobs, jobs, Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding, solar energy, SOLAR PANEL, stimulus, TEXAS STIMULUS FUNDS on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans keep rejecting the success of the stimulus package but that is nothing new, being opposed is just a Republican thing to do nowadays. President Obama said yesterday that even if he said the sky is blue, Republicans would disagree. Despite all that, in Texas, the stimulus seems to serve its purpose just fine, especially [...]
New study shows jobs from Kerry-Lieberman mostly in Nukes, CCS
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Nuclear, tagged American Power Act, carbon capture and sequestration, CCS, climate change, Global Warming, green jobs, jobs, Kerry-Lieberman, Nuclear on May 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One point we often forget when debating climate change strategies is the major economic case for changing our economy to new, clean technology. A new study has been released on the impacts of the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which we’ve never been so hot on, but it shows that despite what the chicken littles at the Chamber [...]
Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar idea
Posted in Energy, solar, tagged 82nd legislature, carrollton, dallas, democrats, distributed energy, energy future holdings, environment texas, farmers branch, females, green jobs, hispanics, incentives, irving, jobs, legislator of the year, males, manufacturing, market development, mccall johnson, oncor, Public Citizen, public utility commission, PUC, rafael anchia, republicans, retail electric providers, silicon, solar, solar power, solarcity, TXU on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award. Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is that we can’t let the [...]
Pushback to Energy Citizens Rally in NC, State Rep Turned Away
Posted in Global Warming, tagged astroturf, cap and trade, citizen, climate change bill, costs, Energy Citizen, energy legislation, gas prices, greensboro, jobs, Jon Cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, labor, north carolina, north carolina conservation network, Public Citizen, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, taxes, Texas on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kudos to the North Carolina Conservation Network for rallying the troops for a real grassroots protest outside of today’s Energy Citizen company picnic in Greensboro. Fifty protesters turned out to show their support for clean energy and green jobs development, NCCN reports: Local folks gathered on the sidewalks surrounding the coliseum to make sure that [...]
Energy Citizens (Corporate Employees) Say the Darndest Things at API Astroturf Event
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, tagged astroturf, cap and trade, citizen, climate change bill, costs, Energy Citizen, energy legislation, gas prices, jobs, Jon Cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, labor, Public Citizen, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, taxes, Texas on August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Even though we were denied access, our intrepid Citizen Sarah was able to blend in with a crowd walking in and starting talking to energy company employees about climate change legislation. You know, Energy Company Employees Can Say the Darndest Things: Look for: Global Warming Deniers! People Who Have NO IDEA What is actually in [...]
Real Anti-Cap and Trade Grassroots blocked from Energy Citizens Rally
Posted in Global Warming, tagged astroturf, cap and trade, citizen, climate change bill, costs, Energy Citizen, energy legislation, gas prices, jobs, Jon Cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, labor, Public Citizen, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, taxes, Texas, unemployment, waxman-markey on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Energy Citizens’ rallies company picnics, such as the one we crashed yesterday in Houston, have been getting a lot of attention through the Netroots, in national publications, and even last night on Rachel Maddow (where one of our videos was featured, even if credit was not given — no worries this time Rach, we [...]
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