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Week in Review
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Andrew Sauls, Andrews County waste dump, austin generation plan, clean energy for austin, coal plant, david power, energy advocacy, environment texas, environmental defense fund, EPA hearing, ICLEI, Melissa Sanchez, mona avalos, ozone attainment standards, P.A.C.E., PACE, patrick reck, property assessed clean energy, reenergize texas, ryan rittenhouse, sarah mcdonald, Sierra Club, smitty, Tar Sands, think green, think green fund, Tom "Smitty" Smith, trevor lovell, univision dallas, week in review on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ReEnergize Texas Aids “Green Fee” Campaigns Statewide at 7 Texas Colleges
Posted in Global Warming, tagged 2009 texas legislative session, 81st legislative session, aggies, campaigns, colleges, environmental service fees, facebook, florida, green fee, hb 3353, house bill 3353, reenergize texas, rice university, texas a&m, video, vimeo on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Posted by Trevor Lovell Having passed House Bill 3353 (known as the “green fee bill,” it was one of the few green bills passed this session and made into law) in the 2009 Texas Legislative Session, the student leaders that comprise the ReEnergize Texas coalition knew they had much work ahead of them. The legislation [...]
Georgetown Council Snubs Students Over Nuclear Power
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Clean Water Action, connor hanrahan, cooperative, CPS Energy, david foster, georgetown, georgetown city council, georgetown utility services, mayor, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, pec, pedernales electric coop, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, Renewables, san antonio city council, seak, southwestern universitys, students, students for environmental activism and knowledge, Texas on November 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Original post can be found at the ReEnergize Texas Blog On Tuesday, students from Southwestern University’s Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge (SEAK) had intended to speak before the Georgetown City Council regarding the 20 year energy plan for their city. They had registered an agenda item with the City Secretary’s Office, asked all the [...]
Austin Students Rise Up Against Coal
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, austin has a dirty secret, Coal, fayette coal plant, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, sierra student coalition, student government, Texas, University of Texas on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today students from across the city of Austin came together in support of Austin moving forward in the direction of clean, renewable energy. University Democrats from the University of Texas, Campus Democrats from St. Edward’s University, the ReEnergize Texas Coalition, the University of Texas Campus Environmental Center and student Sierra Club members, among others, held [...]
Energy Efficiency & East Austin
Posted in Consumers, Efficiency, tagged Austin Energy, Energy Efficiency, Public Citizen, reenergize texas on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow from 8am till noon, Public Citizen and ReEnergize Texas will be at the Rosewood Zaragoza Community Center in East Austin handing out free compact fluorescent focos and registering community residents for free energy efficiency upgrades. ¡Gratis! Free low flush toilets, insulation and windows and doors to keep your hogar cool in the summer and [...]
ReEnergize Texas Hits the Big Times over Green Fee Bill
Posted in Global Warming, tagged college students, green, inc, New York Times, reenergize texas on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hey hey, looks like ReEnergize Texas was featured in a recent article on the New York Times’ Green, Inc blog. Check it out: College Students Clamor for “Green Fees” By Kate Galbraith College students often protest when administrators threaten to raise their fees. But rising numbers of students seem willing to self-impose a “green” fee, [...]
ReEnergize Texas Interviews Texas US Senate Front Runners
Posted in Global Warming, Nuclear, Renewables, tagged 2010 senate race, bill white, carbon policy, clean coal, climate change, democrat, energy storage, florence shapiro, houston mayor, interview, john sharp, kay bailey hutchinson, michael williams, nuclear energy, reenergize texas, renewable energy, republican, texas governor, texas railroad commissioner, trevor lovell on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like our friends over at ReEnergize Texas have scored a couple interviews with two 2010 Senate race hopefuls, Democratic Mayor of Houston Bill White and Republican Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams. Trevor Lovell, Statewide Director for ReEnergize Texas, reports: We are not joining the throng of cable news reporters more concerned [...]
ReEnergize Texas’ Green Fee Bill Passes Senate Committee 5-0
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, college station, committee on higher education, earth day, el paso, green fee bill, reenergize texas, San Antonio, shapleigh, texas a&m, texas tech university, trevor lovell, university of texas el paso, zaffirini on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Original post found at the ReEnergize Texas blog, courtesy of Trevor Lovell: At a hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education today SB 2182, known as the green fee bill, “was reported favorably to the Calendars Committee by unanimous vote, clearing another hurdle on its way to becoming law. Only two weeks ago [...]
King William’s Parade Shenanigans & Success
Posted in Global Warming, tagged charlie gonzalez, Curblog, Greg Harman, king william's fair, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, San Antonio, san antonio current, SEED Coalition on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our ambush of U.S. Congressman Charlie Gonzalez at the King William’s Fair in San Antonio this weekend was both a blast and a great success. If you couldn’t make it out, never fear — Greg Harman at the San Antonio Current did, and just posted a great blog post with full coverage from the parade. [...]
Clean Energy Rally and Lobby Day
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Clean Energy, climate change, climate justice, coal moratorium, Coal Plants, distributed solar, Energy Efficiency, grassroots politics, rally and lobby day, reenergize texas, student climate change movement, texas capitol, Texas Legislature on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sponsored by ReEnergize Texas, the event will feature speeches by leaders in the student climate change movement, as well as a diverse group of Texas Representatives and Senators. When: Monday, March 30th Rally: 9:30am-10:30am Lobby Appointments: 10:30am-2:30pm Where: Texas Capitol (north of 11th and Congress) Register at ReEnergizeTexas.org Hundreds of youth from all over Texas [...]
ReEnergize Texas Summit
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, climate change, congressman lloyd doggett, dr. robert bullard, dumping in dixie, environmental justice, Huston-Tillotson University, mark kapner, pam ragon, reenergize texas, ReEnergize Texas Summit, renewable energy, state legislature, texas republicans for environmental protection on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past three years, our country has experienced a paradigm shift. All across the nation, diverse voices are beginning to rise to the climate challenge, and they are all calling for action. At this moment our generation has the opportunity to offer a bold new vision of our energy future. On March 28-30 2009, [...]
NRG Coal Plant Hearing Protest
Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Bonanza, Carbon Dioxide, clean air act, Clean Water Action, co2, coal plant, environment texas, EPA, epa vs mass, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, Karen Hadden, luke metzger, nrg limestone, permit application, Public Citizen, reenergize texas, SEED Coalition, soah, state office of administrative hearings, TCEQ, texas climate emergency campaign, Tom "Smitty" Smith on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last Friday two administrative law judges refused to hear testimony on the impact of carbon dioxide emissions during the permitting process for the NRG Limestone coal-fired power plant. The contested case hearing for NRG’s air quality permit application will be going on all week long, but testimony on the proposed plant’s contribution to global warming [...]
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