TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT), and thanks to the efforts of [...]
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TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New Laws Offer Hope For Transparency
Posted in Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged andy wilson, kirk watson, LBJ School, Public Disclosure Laws, Texas Legislature, texas tribune on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Legislature has taken steps to offer more transparency in government this legislative year. As a Texas Tribune article written by Becca Aaronson points out, lawmakers hope this will provide a lot of information to be available online. However, some people are worried that private information could be leaked to the public because of [...]
Money and Politics Going Hand in Hand
Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged campaign contributions, citizens united, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Harold Simmons, public citizen texas, robert reich, Stephen Colbert, texans for public justice, Texas Legislature on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent NPR show, former Labor Secretary and political commentator Robert Reich addressed the potential executive order by President Obama to require government contractors to disclose their political spending. Reich wants to take the executive order a step farther by eliminating all political contributions from government contractors. Reich explains that contractors such as Lockheed [...]
Texas Legislature Fails to Protect Public Health or Achieve Clean Energy Jobs Potential in 82nd State Legislative Session
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on June 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today, several Texas environmental organizations spoke up on the recent Texas legislative session and their failure to protect public health or achieve clean energy jobs potential for the state. Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Public Citizen, and SEED Coalition hold Texas State Legislators accountable for missed opportunities to both protect public health from big energy [...]
Senate names conference committee members for TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694)
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged HB 2694, TCEQ, TCEQ Sunset, Texas Legislature on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the Senate named its conference committee members (conferees) for the important TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694). The Senate version of the bill that the conference committee is considering was significantly better than the bill that came out of the House. Please call the senate conferees this week and tell them you want them to pass out [...]
Green Groups in Texas highlight new revenue streams
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Consumers, Energy, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged 82nd legislature, Budget, budget deficit, green revenue, Texas Legislature on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While Texas Legislators are furiously looking under every couch cushion to find more revenue this bienium, the Alliance for Clean Texas today highlighted a half dozen strategies that could help Texas close its $27 billion budget deficit. As lawmakers are loathe to talk about the dreaded “T” word (tax), groups like Public Citizen, Sierra Club, [...]
Texas needs to still care about the Stimulus
Posted in Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged ARRA, Freedom of Information, public citizen texas, stimulus, Texas Impact, Texas Legislature, Texas Open Meetings Act, texas public information act, transparency on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen has been a member of a coalition that has attempted to bring more sunshine, more transparency, and more good government to the implementation on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “The Stimulus.” Two years since its passage much of the funding appropriated has been spent, but there is still more [...]
House Committee Assignments for 82nd Legislature
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 82nd legislature, Committees, Texas Legislature on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we’ve waited for these, and here they are, the Committee Chairs for your 82nd Texas Legislature: Agriculture & Livestock: Representative Rick Hardcastle (R-Vernon) Appropriations: Representative Jim Pitts (R-Waxahachie) Border & Intergovernmental Affairs: Representative Veronica Gonzales (D-McAllen) Business & Industry: Representative Joe Deshotel (D-Beaumont) Calendars: Representative Todd Hunter (R-Corpus Christi) Corrections: Representative Jerry Madden [...]
Texas, home to Big Oil, takes shine to solar power… or does it?
Posted in Energy, solar, Texas Legislature, tagged Ken Anderson, non wind rps, public utility commission, renewable energy, rps, solar power, Texas, Texas Legislature on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reuters carried a good story with this headline Texas, home to Big Oil takes a shine to solar power that describes the solar potential that exists, along with industry involvement and how it could be expanded here if we could just develop some statewide policy that supports it. Too bad the commissioners at the Texas [...]
Houston Redistricting Hearing
Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged Government, houston, redistricting, Texas Legislature, tx on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicial officers or of governing bodies or representatives of political subdivisions or [...]
Texas House Speaker Race Decided?
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Joe Straus, Speaker (politics), Texas, Texas Legislature, warren chisum on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus of San Antonio (District 121) has released the names of 122 lawmakers who he says have pledged him their vote for speaker, giving him enough support for another term (of that number 79 of the 99 elected Republicans are included). Speaker Straus says he believes the race for speaker is over, but he is [...]
By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of Schedule, Texas Shows Policies Work
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Carbon Dioxide, nitrous oxide, non wind rps, Public Citizen, public utility commission, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, rps, Texas, Texas Legislature, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, TREIA, wind coalition on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office We are thrilled – but not surprised – that because of a growth spurt in the development of wind energy, Texas has met its renewable energy goal 15 years ahead of schedule. Each time Texas has set a renewable energy goal, the state has achieved [...]
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 [...]
Houston’s Ozone Compliance Threatened by White Stallion Coal Plant
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, al armendariz, ana hernandez, asthma, bay city, beaumont, clean air act, coal plant, colorado river, compliance, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, galveston, health, houston, jessica farrar, kristi thibaut, matagorda county, nox, ozone, ozone standards, parish coal plant, Public Citizen, ryan rittenhouse, smog, state office of administrative hearings, sunset review, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature, Tom "Smitty" Smith, ttc, white stallion on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen and Area Legislators Urge State to Deny Air Pollution Permit HOUSTON – Area legislators joined Public Citizen this week in urging environmental agencies to deny the White Stallion coal plant its air permit because if built, the facility would degrade air quality in Houston. The emissions from this proposed power plant would exacerbate [...]
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