This afternoon, the Texas Senate took a major step toward a cleaner, healthier future for our state when it voted in favor of Senator Watson’s SB 541. This bill would require electric companies to develop utility-scale solar, geothermal and biomass energy. SB 541 is one of the two major renewable energy bills supported by ACT [...]
Continue Reading →Great news! Senator Watson’s SB 541 has been placed on the Senate intent calendar and will soon be on the Senate floor. This bill would establish a 3,000 MW renewable portfolio standard for the state – a commitment to solar and other renewable energy very much like the one made to wind in 1999. This [...]
Continue Reading →Environment Texas, Environmental Defense Fund and Public Citizen have joined forces to broadcast this ad for solar energy in Dallas-Fort Worth, Abilene, Wichita Falls and Tyler-Longview. Take a look – it’s terrific! Here are three of the renewable energy bills ACT supports: SB 545 – Senator Fraser: relating to the creation of a distributed solar [...]
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.
