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Copenhagen Summit: The First Step to a Journey of a Thousand Miles
Finally, Global warming is getting some international recognition. Since the Kyoto Protocol is about to expire in 2012, the UN, with help of the Danish government, is organizing an international summit...
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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the...
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Texas Railroad Commission Trying to Block Renewable Energy Lines to Help Big Oil
Statement of David Power, Deputy Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Seemingly out of concern that competitive renewable energy will damage Big Oil’s bottom line, the Texas Railroad Commission...
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Another Texas Wind Project Up and Running
Congratulations to San Angelo, Texas, where a new 150 MW wind farm is up, spinning, and on with commercial operations. According to North American Wind Power, The project’s 100 General Electric 1.5 MW...
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Year in Review: Top Texas Vox Stories of 2009
Now that the ball’s dropped, toasts made, fireworks popped and black eyed peas consumed, we’re feeling reflective today. Faced with that eternally annual question, “Should Auld Aquaintance Be...
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Perry spews hot air on warming
Op-ed originally published in Sunday’s Amarillo Globe: Column – Andy Wilson: Perry spews hot air on warming AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry’s recent essay (“EPA ‘science’ doesn’t add up in global warming...
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Obama announces new government goal for reducing greenhouse gases: 28% by 2020
Also cross-posted at our Energy Blog: President Obama announced this morning he was putting the government on a low carbon diet. Through a series of initiatives, he hopes to decrease energy consumption...
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Energy Generation Plan Presented to Austin City Council
Last Thursday Austin Energy General Manager Roger Duncan briefed Austin City Council on the utility’s Resource and Climate Protection Plan. This plan is the culmination of 18 months of input from the...
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What’s Missing from Austin’s Energy Generation Plan Discussion
The Austin American Statesman’s article this morning about Austin’s 2020 energy plan leaves a few things out that are crucial to understanding the costs and benefits of adding more energy efficiency...
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Businesses, Environmental and Low-Income Groups Unite Behind Energy Plan
Photo Courtesy of Donna Hoffman at the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. Thanks Donna! Dozens of businesses and nonprofit organizations as well as more than 200 citizens have formed Clean Energy...
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Town Hall Meeting on Energy Plan for Austin TONIGHT
Tonight, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell will host a town hall meeting on an energy plan for Austin Energy that would establish our own carbon dioxide cap and reduction plan. The great news is that by...
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Public Citizen responds: Check your facts, Judge
For those of you following our work organizing citizens in the Bay City area against the proposed White Stallion coal plant, there is a new chapter to add to the saga. You may remember that we were...
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EPA Hearing in Dallas on New Ozone Standard
Video footage of a public meeting back in March for the Dallas, TX region. EPA has proposed a new NOx attainment standard, and this meeting was held during the comment period. Though an official EPA...
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Great Texas Cleanup Concert
The Great Texas Cleanup: Outdoor Art & Music Festival July 24th in Houston at Discovery Green On July 24th, the Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service (TEJAS) will host The...
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Come See Us This Saturday in Houston at The Great Texas Clean Up!
The concert is FREE to the public and welcomes all ages. The Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice are rolling out the Great Texas Clean-Up Festival, from 4-10 at the Discovery Green in Houston,...
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth? In this case it’s 60.000 cycles per second.
Come close together, cats and kitties, and gather ’round, while the Powerman gets his story-telling hat- the one with the fine white brim- slips it on and talks about what’s going down with a happening...
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Corpus Christi citizens meet to begin the process of fixing TCEQ
TCEQ is broken. It’s not working in the public’s interest, and there are direct costs that all of us in the state of Texas are paying as a result. But there is an opportunity for us to fix some of the...
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Clean Air Act Restrictions Pushed Aside in Wake of Political Preparation and...
Election season is imminent and advocates for environmental welfare and public health need not look very far for the hyper-political red tape and drawbacks to pollution legislation. Like many of her...
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Clean Energy Works for Texas Urges Action on Non-Wind Renewable Portfolio...
Yesterday, Clean Energy Works for Texas – a coalition consisting of Public Citizen, Sierra Club, Texas BlueGreen Apollo Alliance, Progress Texas, Clean Water Action, Environment Texas, North Texas...
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Texas Perched at Top of Vast Renewable Energy Resources – Translate into Huge...
Orbach: $1 billion for energy storage research could launch state’s next energy era Watch for the University of Texas at Austin to soon make a $1 billion pitch to lawmakers aimed at unleashing the...
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