Phoenix, AZ – Today, the Arizona Corporation Commission acted to save consumers and businesses money by unanimously approving a final Energy Efficiency Standard Rule. “There was strong support from all five commissioners to significantly increase Arizona’s commitment to energy efficiency via this landmark new standard,” said Jeff Schlegel with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP). [...]
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Arizona Corporation Commission Unanimously Approves One of the Strongest Energy Efficiency Standards in the Country
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, tagged PUC, Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Texas, arizona on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Who Watches the Watchmen? YOU DO- read your Representatives’ personal financial disclosure!
Posted in Good Government, tagged Texas, Rick Perry, bill white, texas tribune, Todd Staples, personal financial disclosures on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas Tribune has just published their list of Texas Personal Financial Statements: 2009, in which you can search for the personal financial statements of over 3,000 Texas officials and political candidates. Why not look up your representative or senator, your favorite TCEQ commissioner, the governor, perhaps? You will be able to see the source of [...]
TCEQ Continues to Fail the People of Texas
Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged Coal, Public Citizen, las brisas, corpus christi, TCEQ, Texas, state office of administrative hearings, soah, hearing, pollution, pet-coke, Petcoke, judge, meeting, judges, remand, fail, petroleum on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The TCEQ ruled today on the air permit for the proposed Las Brisas pet-coke plant in Corpus Christi. The good news is they didn’t grant the permit (yet), instead they remanded the permit back to the State Office of Administrative Hearings on a number of issues. However, they refused to acknowledge some of the most [...]
Dirtiest Oil in the World to be Refined in Texas?
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Transportation, tagged Global Warming, oil, Texas, Tar Sands, pipeline, tarsands, canada, hearings, meeting, deis, state department, draft environmental impact statement on June 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
TransCanada, a pipeline company out of Canada, wants to build a pipeline to bring the dirtiest kind of oil in the world from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Houston and Beaumont. This oil is many times dirtier than conventional crude and allowing Houston area refineries to process it would increase air [...]
Three Finalists for Austin Energy GM Announced!
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, tagged Austin, Austin Energy, Energy Efficiency, green jobs, public citizen texas, Texas on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the Austin Business Journal: The finalists include Ronald Davis, Larry Weis and David Wright. Ronald Davis (Burbank, Calif.) Davis has worked 30 years in the electric industry and has led Burbank Water and Power for the last 12 years. Burbank Water and Power is a municipal utility in urban Southern California with a 2009 [...]
Things to know about the TCEQ air-permitting controversy
Posted in Good Government, Sunset, tagged TCEQ, Oak Grove, EPA, Texas, emissions, waste control specialists, perry, WCS, glenn shankle, Sunset, Mark Vickery on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Background: What the controversy is all about On May 25, 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) barred the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) from issuing a permit to a refinery in Corpus Christi. EPA said that the process used to justify that permit violated the Clean Air Act. EPA’s Region 6 Administrator, Al [...]
More natural gas pipeline explosions in Texas
Posted in Energy, tagged Renewables, Texas, fossil fuels, pipeline, explosion on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After Monday’s deadly explosion of a pipeline in Johnson County, there was another explosion in the Panhandle today. From the Austin-American Statesman: The blast near Darrouzett, just south of the Oklahoma border, was the second fatal natural gas explosion in Texas in as many days. On Monday, a worker was killed when a utility crew [...]
Comments to EPA on New Ozone Attainment Standard – Dallas, March 16, 2010
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Public Citizen, EPA, Texas, Sierra Club, dallas, ozone, pollution, region 6, downwinders at risk, smog, standard, ozone standard, o3, attainment on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On March 16, 2010 Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Downwinders At Risk, Texas Campaign for the Environment and other concerned environmental organizations and individuals held a public meeting to submit comments to the EPA regarding their newly proposed ozone standard. State representatives and staff from Region 6 of the EPA were there to hear comments. These [...]
Texas can meet all our energy needs for next decade through efficiency alone, save $330 per household and create 130,000 new jobs says new report from Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University
Posted in Efficiency, tagged ACES, climate change, Efficiency, green jobs, Kerry Graham Lieberman, senate climate bill, Texas, Waxman-Markey bill on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Texas is growing. In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing areas of the country. Growing communities and growing business usually means building more power plants, which would add to our already significant air quality problems not to mention all of the greenhouse gases we would spew. But, rather than building Megawatts, we should be [...]
High Demand for Appliance Rebates Show That More Programs Are Needed
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged appliance rebate program, efficient appliances, Energy Efficiency, Public Citizen, public utility commiss, PUC, rebates, Texas, Tom "Smitty" Smith on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Today Texans proved that there is a very high demand for energy-efficient products and services when they made reservations for $23 million worth of appliance rebates in just eight hours, using up rebates in the first day they became available. This goes to show how [...]
By Meeting Renewable Energy Goal 15 Years Ahead of Schedule, Texas Shows Policies Work
Posted in Energy, Renewables, tagged renewable energy, Public Citizen, Texas, Texas Legislature, Carbon Dioxide, public utility commission, renewable portfolio standard, rps, non wind rps, nitrous oxide, wind coalition, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, TREIA 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 Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bill white, brains and eggs, bryan, burnt orange report, chamber of commerce, college station, dallas, democrats, EPA, eye on williamson, health care, homeowners insurance, lakeisha rogers, left of college station, lewisville, louis gohmert, march madness, off the kuff, phillip martin, proposed ozone standards, public hearing, republicans, rick green, Rick Perry, school districts, school finance, south texas chisme, tax dodging, tea bagger, Texas, texas progressive alliance, texas supreme court, texas-mexico border, texaskaos, txsharon on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly blog roundup will reach 32 million more Americans regardless of their pre-existing conditions. Last week, TXsharon made a video statement at the EPA Public Hearing on the proposed ozone standards. Who Needs a Proctologist when you have former State Representative Rick Green running for the Texas Supreme Court? This week [...]
Conserve Energy and Save Money with Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged appliances, conservation, doe, Efficiency, energy efficient appliance rebate program, Energy Star, jeff wentworth, oak hill gazette, seco, state energy conservation office, state rebates, state senator, Texas, united states department of energy on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In last week’s Oak Hill Gazette, State Senator Jeff Wentworth wrote a guest article profiling the Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program. Next month, from April 16-25, Texas residents can get a rebate to buy up to two energy efficient appliances including refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, hot water heaters, clothes washers, and both room and central air [...]
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