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The following bills are on the General State Calendar today for second reading. Each of the bills addresses an ACT 2009 legislative recommendation. Energy Efficiency: HB 280 Anchia Relating to energy efficiency goals and programs and demand reduction targets; creating an office of energy efficiency deployment in the state energy conservation office. HB 2210 Anchia [...]

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The House Committee on Environmental Regulation will hear important clean air bills today including  SB 16 – Senator Averitt’s omnibus clean air and energy efficiency bill.  Several address flaws in the TCEQ permitting process. (TCEQ was already in the news this week when Senators Shapleigh, Davis, Ellis and Watson held a press conference on “cleaning [...]

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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 [...]

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