Editor’s note: Normally we don’t stray into the political implications of public policy, but after Patrick wrote this response to President Obama’s new drilling policy we felt it was too interesting to keep to ourselves. So here’s a try at something new: Commentary and Opinion from Patrick Reck. Wednesday’s announcement by President Obama to expand [...]
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Offshore Drilling: Obama’s Black Whale
Posted in Global Warming, tagged fossil fools, fossil fuel fools, obama, obama's black whale, offshore drilling on April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Direct Action Against MTR at EPA
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Global Warming, Coal, obama, Lisa Jackson, EPA, mountain top removal, Mining, protest, mtr, mountaintop, RAN, action on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Activists are risking arrest by demonstrating outside EPA national headquarters in make-shift tripod stands. They say they won’t go away until EPA administrator Lisa Jackson promises to make a fly-over of the Appalachian Mountain Top Removal coal mines to see first hand the destruction it is causing. Despite the Obama administration making claims they would [...]
Texas Universities En Route to Green Leadership
Posted in Global Warming, tagged aggies, California, earth day, elliot naishtat, fred brown, green fee, hb 3353, local solutions, longhorns, obama, public policy, sustainability, tea party, Tennessee, texas a&m, Texas Legislature, texas state, University of Houston, University of North Texas, University of Texas, ut austin, ut el paso, UT Pan American, UT San Antonio on March 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Longhorns and Aggies to create “green funds” that may soon be emulated statewide Austin, TX – Progressives in America have been stunned over the last year as President Obama’s agenda has repeatedly faltered and the far-right Tea Party has emerged as a dominant force in public policy discussions. Given the failure to make progress on [...]
The Next Big Bailout: Not a Done Deal
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged bailout, call in day, congressional budget office, federal financing bank, Loan Guarantees, Nuclear, obama, Public Citizen, reactors on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Original post can be found at our DC “Citizen Energy” blog President Obama wants to triple the loan program for construction of new nuclear reactors, to $54 billion. The nuclear loan guarantee program commits taxpayers to not only underwrite risky nuclear reactor projects, but also allows wealthy nuclear utilities to borrow the money from the [...]
SNOWPOCALYPSE Strikes Austin, Texas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, climate change, climate deniers, creamed corn, dallas, drought, Global Warming, hurricanes, ice, obama, olympics, snow, snowmageddom, snowpocalypse, Texas, weather, wonk room on February 23, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Holy *%$&! its snowing in Austin, Texas! What do I do? Can I still drive? Do I have to go to work? Should I put on big boots and go buy as much bottled water and creamed corn as I can fit into a stolen borrowed shopping cart? Or just jump on the global warming [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Global Warming, tagged obama, bill white, democrat, republican, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, texaskaos, eye on williamson, health care, asian american action fund, lewisville isd, hank gilbert, linda chavez-thompson, oil and gas, primary, lunar new year, year of the tiger, housong, alma aguado, budget cuts, commissioner of agriculture, longhorn, watermelon on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes you all a happy Lunar New Year, and brings you the first Year of the Tiger blog roundup. Justin at Asian American Action Fund Blog notes that Houston is the first locale President Obama named in his Lunar New Year Greeting. Could there be a political meaning behind it? CouldBeTrue [...]
National Day of Action Against Coal Waste
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Global Warming, Coal, obama, Tennessee, environment, coal plant, coal ash waste, waste, national day of action, white house, ash, TVA, call, president, disaster, contamination on January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
TODAY is our National Coal Ash Day of Action - please ask the White House to allow the US EPA to finally regulate coal ash as the hazardous waste it is. Currently, coal ash is less regulated than household trash! This toxic waste stream has never been regulated and that must change, now. 1. Please [...]
Perry, Shaw Blow Smoke About Proposed Ozone Rule
Posted in Energy, Toxics, tagged bryan shaw, bush administration, EPA, governor perry, obama, oil and gas, ozone, proposed rule, science, TCEQ on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In response to the EPA’s announcement today of a proposed rule for tougher ozone standards, Governor Perry and his appointee to the TCEQ, Bryan Shaw, have been blowing a lot of smoke and hot air about what the rule would mean for Texas. Specifically, Perry and Shaw have stated incorrectly that the rule did not [...]
Obama going to Copenhagen with 17% reduction goal. Why not 35%?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 17% reduction goal, 35% reduction goal, climate change, cop15, copenhagen, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming, ipcc, obama on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of today, all four of the largest greenhouse gas polluters (China, the US, the EU, and India — no, not Texas) have announced the greenhouse gas reduction goals they want to pursue at the Copenhagen climate talks (COP-15) this week in Denmark. Here’s the rundown: EU: 20% cut in emissions relative to 1990 levels [...]
EPA Calls for Proper Enforcement of Clean Air Act in Texas
Posted in Toxics, tagged clean air, clean air act, EPA, galveston-houston association for smog prevention, ghasp, ken kramer, Lisa Jackson, matthew tejada, obama, polluters, Public Citizen, Sierra Club, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tom "Smitty" Smith on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Environmental Groups welcome EPA’s proposed rejection of key elements of TCEQ’s air permitting plan and call for proper enforcement of Clean Air Act protections in Texas (Austin) — Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and the Galveston/Houston Association for Smog Prevent (GHASP) welcomed the EPA proposal today to disapprove key aspects of the Texas clean-air permitting program [...]
Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Global Warming, obama, EPA, governor perry, texas progressive alliance, south texas chisme, brains and eggs, mcblogger, texaskaos, texas liberal, left of college station, eye on williamson, bay area houston, denton county, texas cloverleaf, health care reform, annise parker, pete olson, ted kennedy, ashby high rise, medicare, gene locke, peter brown, joe lieberman, chet edwards on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No tea bags left? Neil [...]
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