Cap Metro’s hearing at the Sunset Advisory Commission on Tuesday wasn’t the public flogging many might have expected, given the mass transit authority’s myriad problems over the past several years. It came as a shock to no one as Sunset staff delivered testimony that centered on the financial crisis the transit authority faces. Several commissioners, [...]
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Cap Metro’s debut at the Sunset Commission
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Renewables, Transportation, tagged Austinites for Action, Cap Metro, Coalition for Sustainable Transportation, Dennis Bonnen, eddie rodriguez, Jim Skaggs, John Whitmire, kirk watson, light rail, mass transit, mike martinez, Pedernales, SB 2015, StarTran, sunset commission on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stimulating Facts on the Green Stimulus
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged climate change, Energy Efficiency, green spending measures, house of representatives, mass transit, president obama, public transportation, renewable energy, republican minority whip eric cantor, senate, speaker nancy pelosi, stimulus package, ways and means committee on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week the House passed the $819 billion stimulus package, and even more exciting is that over $100 billion of the package is allocated to green spending. Amazingly, the package passed without a single Republican vote. Only 11 Democrats voted against the bill, with a final vote of 244-188. Here is a breakdown of the [...]

















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