After midnight in the Senate: Voter ID at hour 16 and counting…
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....
View ArticleVoter ID Passes Senate Committee Hearing
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...
View ArticleGo Solar: Make Utilities Give Consumers a Fair Price for Surplus Electricity
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...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Bill Passes Senate
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...
View ArticleWaco Trib Weighs in on Renewable Portfolio Standard
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...
View ArticleHouse Calendars Committee Has Ultimate Power over Solar
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...
View ArticleAct Now To Stop New Coal and Nuclear Subsidy
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....
View ArticleVoter ID Chubfest Put Texas Environmental Bills At Risk
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...
View ArticleA Ray of Hope for Solar Power
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...
View ArticleNet Metering and Resurrected Solar Bill Passes Texas Senate
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...
View ArticleSenate to hear testimony on February power outages
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...
View ArticleTexans’ right to protest the permits issued by TCEQ is under attack
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...
View ArticleTCEQ SUNSET BILL PASSES IN TEXAS SENATE
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...
View ArticleYesterday Texans made their voices heard, defending their property rights
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...
View ArticleJoin us for ACT Lobby day at the Texas Capital, Wednesday, March 20th.
2007 ACT coordinated over 1000 Texans to rally against a Texas Coal Rush Whether you’re concerned about eminent domain and oil & gas regulations, climate change and the effects of drought on our...
View ArticlePACE is Good for Texas
You may have never heard of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), but it has the potential to make a huge difference in adoption of distributed renewable energy systems, such as rooftop solar...
View ArticleClimate Change Denial vs. Science at Texas Legislature
Just before Earth Day, the House of Representatives once again demonstrated its commitment to protecting the fossil fuel industries that fund many of the members campaigns instead of protecting the...
View ArticleTexas Senate “Public Hearing” on Redistricting
Guest Blog by Marion Mlotok On Thursday, May 30, 2013, the Texas Senate held a public hearing on redistricting as a launch of the 83rd 1st special session. The hearing started at 9:00 am and closed at...
View ArticleRadioactive Waste Could Be Rumbling Through Your Town Unless State...
18-Wheeler Accident Spills Radioactive Material in Pineville, LA With the passage of SB 1504 in the Texas Senate, radioactive waste could soon be barreling down Texas highways and through our...
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