Attention shifts to the House This week is an important one for solar energy in the 81st Legislature. On the Senate side, the Committee on Business and Commerce can move solar energy legislation, including legislation that calls for a major program for distributed generation such as rooftop solar, out of committee and onto the Senate [...]
Continue Reading →With eight major issue areas covered by ACT issue teams, ACT is currently tracking over 300 bills. We’ve compiled the following list to help you learn about legislation that addresses ACT’s 2009 legislative recommendations. For the rest of the session, ACT will review and publish this list weekly. This week, the emphasis is on clean [...]
Continue Reading →Tuesday, March 24th is Solar Day in the 81st Session This coming week could be very sunny for the Texas Legislature-the one when Texas starts working with the sun to solve our energy problems. This session, twelve bills call for a new Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) for emerging energy technology in Texas. This is the [...]
Continue Reading →2011 ACT Legislative Agenda
ACT's 2011 Legislative Agenda is now available online. In 2011, ACT calls on the Texas Legislature to safeguard our health and our environment by adopting key recommendations in air, clean energy, land, waste & recycling, water and reform of our state government.
