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 →After a weekend-long roller coaster ride, the dust is beginning to settle around the renewable energy bills. And as we get off the ride, it’s fair to say that “whiplashed” is the only word for what we’re feeling. The disappointing news: SB 545 and HB 1243 have failed to gain final passage in the House. [...]
Continue Reading →Last night, HB 1243 failed to make the midnight deadline for the House to either concur or go to conference on Senate amendments. As HB 1243 died, so did SB 545 – bill to establish a rebate program for distributed solar generation that would have jumpstarted the wide-scale adoption of rooftop solar throughout the state. [...]
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.
