How did the 81st Session go? After all the planning, meetings, hearings, email, office visits, phone calls, amendments, amendments to the amendment, how did things go for the ACT agenda this session? The bottomline: we didn’t make the kind of progress on clean energy and clean air issues we had hoped to make. ACT bills [...]
Continue Reading →With six days left in the 81st Session, the time has come for all Texans to take immediate action in support of clean air and clean energy. SB16, SB 545 and SB 541 are on the House Major State Calendar today. As we’ve said on this site repeatedly, this is great news. However, midnight tonight [...]
Continue Reading →Great HUGE news! Last night, the House Calendars Committee chose to put SB 541 – Sen Watson’s bill that would establish a state-wide goal of generating 1,500 mega watts from utility-scale renewable energy – on the Major State Calendar tomorrow. This bill would lay the foundation for the development of large-scale renewable power in Texas. [...]
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.
