As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup. BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings “amazing and very high” Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to Barnett Shale area! Take a deep breath before you read this study because [...]
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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 annise parker, ashby high rise, bay area houston, brains and eggs, chet edwards, denton county, EPA, eye on williamson, gene locke, Global Warming, governor perry, health care reform, joe lieberman, left of college station, mcblogger, medicare, obama, pete olson, peter brown, south texas chisme, ted kennedy, texas cloverleaf, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos 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 [...]
U.S Politics: but, Please make it brief
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged obama, education, america, us politics, health care forum, media, television, hillary clinton, democratic convention, republican convention, environmental quality on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night like many Americans I watch President Obama’s ABC News Health Care Forum, filmed from the White House. Among the things that struck me most was how vague and sound-bite oriented the President’s answers were to the panels questions and how the pressures of commercial television force speakers into confining their messages to short [...]
House Democrats Want More!
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged air pollution, Bill, capture, conservation, Energy, energy emissions, energy technology, greenhouse gases, house of representatives, Markey, obama, reduction, renewable, Waxman, Waxman-Markey bill on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama has voiced that two of his top priorities will be climate change and energy. Earlier this month he announced an energy plan that would call for 14% reduction in emissions from the 2005 levels by 2020, and an 83% reduction by 2050. But House Democrats Henry a. Waxman (California) and Edward J. Markey [...]
Youth Storms US Congress at Powershift–Largest Lobby Day in Environmental History
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged Air Quality, carbon cap, Carbon Dioxide, Clean energy corps, climate change, Coal, Congress, Department of Energy, geothermal, global climate treaty, green jobs, greenhouse gas, house of representatives, obama, powershift 09, Public Citizen, renewable energy, Renewables, senate, solar power, stimulus package, student activists, washington dc on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the fight for a greener future, America’s youth has and is continuing to be one of the strongest forces. Recently, I participated in Powershift 2009–the largest summit on climate and energy in United States’ history. Roughly 12,000 attended the conference, and the overwhelming majority of participants were students from high schools and colleges spanning [...]
Green Jobs, Clean Power!
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 81st Texas Legislative Session, alliance for a clean texas, California, clean jobs, climate change, denver museum of nature, Energy Efficiency, green power, Lloyd Doggett, mark strama, obama, Rodney Ellis, solar, state legislature, Texas, texas capitol, van jones, wind energy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bright and early yesterday morning, US Representative Lloyd Doggett, State Senator Rodney Ellis, State Representative Mark Strama, and environmental and civil rights advocate Van Jones stood together to tout the Alliance for a Clean Texas’ Texas Energy Future: Clean Jobs, Green Power Conference. Rodney Ellis opened up the press conference, stating that this year’s legislative [...]
Obama steps up to the energy efficiency plate
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged ACEEE, appliance standards, Department of Energy, obama on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the past 30 years, previous administrations have failed to write regulations to enforce the laws, despite strong pushes by Congress and even a court order to attain stricter energy standards on 30 categories of appliances, according to a recent New York Times article. Speaking to the Department of Energy recently, however, President Obama ordered the department [...]
Energy Efficiency Stimulates, but Nuclear Pork Fizzles
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Nuclear, tagged Congress, congressional budget office, economic recovery, Energy Efficiency, house, karnes city, kingsville, Luminant, Nuclear, nuclear loan guarantees, nuclear loans, nuclear waste, obama, Public Citizen, PUC, renewable energy, senate, senate appropriations committee, shovel ready, south texas nuclear plant, stimulus bill, stimulus package, Tom "Smitty" Smith, uranium mining, wall street on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A message from our director, Tom “Smitty” Smith: Today the House and Senate are working to reconcile their different versions of the long-awaited economic stimulus package. The stakes are now higher than ever for Texans, who stand to gain from billions that could go toward developing renewable energy and efficiency in the state, reducing pollution [...]
Drill no more, baby, drill no more
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bureau of Land Management, bush administration, drill baby dirll, earthjustice, obama, Oil and Gas Leases, robin cooley, sarah palin, tim dechris, Tim DeChristopher, utah on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The promise by the Obama administration to overturn Bush administration policies on energy has begun with the canceling of oil drilling leases on more than 100,000 acres in Utah.
Deadline Today!
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Green Stimulus, obama, renewable energy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congress is voting on Obama’s much anticipated stimulus package today. If you want this package to include measures to promote renewable energy and a public works project to make public buildings more energy-efficient — and if you read this blog, I bet you do — tell your legislator now! It will only take a minute, [...]
A Clean Energy Economy
Posted in Global Warming, tagged California Waiver, climate change, Energy, environment, Environmental Policy, EPA, Executive order, fuel efficiency, Global Warming, green, obama on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This morning President Obama outlined his energy and environmental policy and how it fit into his broader effort to jump start our flailing economy. It was a like taking a breath of fresh air to hear someone actually addressing the environmental problems we face reasonably. Finally! He focused on the problems we face as an [...]
Don’t Let Energy Costs Put the Stranglehold on You!
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged economic recession, Economic Stimulus Package, Energy Costs, Energy Efficiency, Green Energy Stimulus, obama, renewable energy, Weatherization on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American homes lose $13 billion in wasted energy every year, averaging a whopping $150 per family. What’s more, the average family spends about $1,900 per year on utility bills. In these economic times, it’s hard to fork out that kind of money. What’s even more outrageous is that energy companies are currently lobbying Congress for [...]
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