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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aarp, archer fellow, bay area houston, big insurance, big pharma, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, burnt orange report, Capitol Annex, diana maldonado, drilling reform, eye on williamson, fox news, health care, Hurricane Ike, lamar smith, land comissioner, left of college station, leo berman, mcblogger, michael burgess, national cash register, off the kuff, robert reich, south texas chisme, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, texaskaos, todd hill, truthhugger, txsharon, tyler mayor, washington dc, wcnews, whosplayin on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up. Neil at Texas Liberal writes about the relocation of the National Cash Register company from Dayton, Ohio to Georgia. Treating people like dirt for 200 years gives Southern states an advantage in creating a so-called business friendly [...]

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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 [...]

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Huge Coal Ash Spill in North Potomac, Terrible Message Moves Toward Washington DC

Posted in Global Warming, Toxics, Coal, tagged Congress, Obama administration, washington dc, coal ash spill, north potomac, pete altman, nrdc, switchboard blog, maryland department of the environment, luke, md, coal waste, toxic ash, combustion waste, 1Sky, Skywriter blog on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A ruptured pipeline has just spilled 4,000 gallons of toxic coal ash into the north Potomac River, reports Pete Altman at NRDC’s Switchboard blog: The Maryland Department of the Environment just reported that a ruptured pipeline carrying wet coal ash has spilled 4,000 gallons of the toxic-laden stuff into the North Branch of the Potomac [...]

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Powershift Jealousy

Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, energy action coalition, jessy tolkan, powershift, powershift 09, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, social justice, washington dc on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Powershift 2009 officially begins today, and I am so jealous I can’t be there. If you haven’t heard of Powershift, here’s a brief description from their website: In the middle of our new administration’s first 100 days, Power Shift 09 will bring 10,000 young people to Washington to hold our elected officials accountable for rebuilding [...]

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