Yesterday, Texans from across the state made their voices heard in the Texas state house by calling their state senators and asking them to stand up to industry’s power play to pollute at will. On Tuesday night, Rep. Dennis Bonnen (HB 25, Angleton), offered an amendment on SB 875 that would provide industry an affirmative defense against [...]
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Yesterday Texans made their voices heard, defending their property rights
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Texas Legislature, tagged property rights, public citizen texas, SB875, Texas, Texas House of Representatives, texas senate on May 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
TCEQ SUNSET BILL PASSES IN TEXAS SENATE
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged TCEQ Sunset, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas senate on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Texas Senate just unanimously approved House Bill 2694, the sunset bill for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Senate sponsors Huffman and Hegar fought to pass a clean TCEQ sunset bill and Senators Watson and Huffman clarified the intent of Senators to keep this bill clean in an anticipated House-Senate conference committee. In the months leading [...]
Texans’ right to protest the permits issued by TCEQ is under attack
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Chisum, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas House of Representatives, texas senate on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Contribution by the Alliance for Clean Texas. When the 82nd Legislature convened in January, we knew we were in for a fight. We knew that industry would try to weaken the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and make it easier to get permits and skirt enforcement. We knew that the odds were stacked in favor [...]
Senate to hear testimony on February power outages
Posted in Global Warming, tagged hearing, rolling blackouts, Texas, texas senate on February 11, 2011 | 9 Comments »
The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will convene in a joint hearing with the Senate Committee on Natural Resources at 8:30 a.m. on February 15, 2011, in the Senate Chamber. The purpose of the hearing is to receive updates on the power outages of February 2nd through 4th and to discuss the status, [...]
Net Metering and Resurrected Solar Bill Passes Texas Senate
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged distributed solar, electric coops, environment texas, governor perry, green jobs, hb 1243, houston chronicle, made in texas, pec scandal, public citizen texas, retail electric providers, sb 545, sb 921, solar, solar rebates, texas consumers, texas senate, transparency on May 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Last night at 11:58 pm (wink, wink), just as we suspected would happen, the Texas Senate unanimously passed through the net metering bill, HB 1243, with solar SB 545 amended on as a bonus. This is great news for Texas consumers, the environment, and solar power. As you may recall, HB 1243 will ensure that [...]
A Ray of Hope for Solar Power
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged bio gas, buy back rates, hb 1243, net metering, non wind rps, rps, sb 545, senator fraser, small wind, solar, texas senate, troy fraser, voter id on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this morning, I offered the consolation that bills which died due to the Voter ID debacle could be revived as amendments to other bills. This afternoon, I’m keeping an eye on the Senate to see if my solar dreams will come true. This afternoon, the Senate has HB 1243 on their intent calendar. HB [...]
Voter ID Chubfest Put Texas Environmental Bills At Risk
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Air Quality, amendments, austin american stateman, chubbing, driver's license, electric coops, Energy Efficiency, kip averitt, solar energy, solar power, stalling, texas house, texas senate, voter id, Waco on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following the Texas Legislature at all over the weekend, you’ve probably heard the term “chubbing” at least once. Yesterday marked the deadline for all bills that originated in the Senate to pass second reading — which means that any bills that didn’t make it through the House by midnight last night are [...]
Act Now To Stop New Coal and Nuclear Subsidy
Posted in Coal, Energy, Nuclear, tagged cap and trade, clean coal, Coal, comanch peak, hb 4525, manufacturing plants, Nuclear, risk, South Texas Project, subsidy, Texas Legislature, texas senate on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A bill currently moving in the Texas Legislature, HB 4525, would create new state subsidy of $50 million each for new nuclear and coal plants. We need your help to stop this pork bill from passing. Call your Senator now and tell them that nuclear power doesn’t need taxpayer help! Although the claim of HB [...]
House Calendars Committee Has Ultimate Power over Solar
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged Allan Ritter, Brandon Creighton, Brian McCall, Burt R. Solomons, byron cook, Charlie Geren, conference committee, Eddie Lucio III, Edmund Kuempel, farabee, fraser, Garnet Coleman, Jim Keffer, Jim McReynolds, Lois W. Kolkhorst, Norma Chavez, pink dome, Renewables, sb 541, sb 545, sine die, solar, solar power, strama, texas house, Texas Legislature, texas senate, watson on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bad news from the big pink dome. Looks like two of our key bills to promote solar power this session, SB 545 (Fraser/Strama) and SB 541 (Watson/Farabee) are getting stuck in the gummy gears of the legislative process. These bills have both made it through committee and the Senate, but still need to be voted [...]
Waco Trib Weighs in on Renewable Portfolio Standard
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged democrat, environmentalism, Global Warming, kip averitt, kirk watson, PUC, republicans, Rick Perry, solar energy, texas house, texas public utility commission, texas senate, troy fraser, voter id bill, waco tribune on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
EDITORIAL: Seeing the light and all its power Thursday, May 14, 2009 Dismiss talk of global warming and environmentalism if you must. But times are changing fast and, along with them, the very way we heat and cool our homes and businesses. The Texas Senate signaled as much this week, approving a bill encouraging development [...]
Renewable Energy Bill Passes Senate
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged biomass, Clean Energy, distributed solar, geothermal, public citizen texas, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, sb 541, senator watson, solar, texas house, texas senate, Twitter, utility scale solar on May 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday afternoon the Texas Senate passed through SB 541, a bill authored by Senator Kirk Watson (D-Austin) to create a non-wind renewable portfolio standard. If passed through the House, SB 541 would put Texas on course to have 1500 MW of renewable energy from non-wind sources such as solar, geothermal, and biomass. If you follow [...]
Go Solar: Make Utilities Give Consumers a Fair Price for Surplus Electricity
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged buy back rates, electric rates, environment texas, foreign oil, gallego, house state affairs committee, lubbock, luke metzger, net metering, pollution, public utilities commission of texas, PUCT, shallowater high school, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, solomons, Texas, texas house, Texas Legislature, texas senate, TXU on May 11, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Thanks to Luke Metzger at the Environment Texas blog for this take on pending net metering legislation (read: making sure folks with solar panels get paid back for the excess energy they produce): On Monday, the Texas House will decide whether to promote solar energy by requiring utilities to pay consumers fair prices for surplus [...]
Voter ID Passes Senate Committee Hearing
Posted in Good Government, Privacy, tagged ap, Capitol Annex, david dewhurst, house elections committee, sb 362, texas house, texas senate, Vince Leibowitz, voter id, voter suppression on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a grueling 23-hour hearing, the Senate passed SB 362, requiring that voters present a photo identification. No big surprise there. The AP reports, No one was surprised that a special Senate panel, which includes all 31 senators and Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, approved the legislation along straight party lines in a 20-12 vote [...]
After midnight in the Senate: Voter ID at hour 16 and counting…
Posted in Good Government, Privacy, tagged liveblogging, Texas, texas senate, voter, voter id on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is 2am. I have been listening to the Senate debate voter ID suppression for the past 16 hours. I hope all of you have been following us on Twitter, as some of those tweets were quite entertaining. I have heard the arguments. Here are my opinions: Those opposed to voter ID have successfully proved [...]
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