Guidebook Shows Texas Green Job Opportunities |
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Texas job seekers, students and policymakers have a new reference tool for seizing opportunities available in a burgeoning new economy with today's release of the "Texas Green Jobs Guidebook" published by Environmental Defense Fund. The publication profiles more than 200 types of green jobs, gives information on job training and placement programs, and provides city-specific overviews of workforce websites and community college program listings.
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Nuclear power risky, expensive |
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March 5, 2010
 CORPUS CHRISTI – Heavily subsidized by taxpayers and ratepayers, nuclear power is susceptible to delay, cost overruns and significant environmental risks. Investing billions into more nuclear power threatens to derail funding that would be better spent on energy efficiency and safer, cleaner renewable energy.
Moody's advises investors that nuclear projects frequently lead to financial crunch and credit rating drops. The two South Texas Project reactors proposed for the existing Bay City site were supposed to lead the so-called "nuclear renaissance," but there has been strong citizen and legal opposition and the cost has already skyrocketed. Estimates now exceed $18 billion, three times original projections. No shovel has yet been turned and no license granted.
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China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy |
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January 30, 2010
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TIANJIN, China – China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world's largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
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PACE-Property Assessed Clean Energy districts
Local and Renewable Energy Efficiency Districts |
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Legislation has been passed allowing cities to create "PACE Energy Districts" to loan homeowners and businesses money for renewable power and energy efficiency (HB 1937).
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By Degrees;
A New Enforcer in Buildings, the Energy Inspector |
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AUSTIN, Tex. - "Somebody took a lunch break!" he complained to the builder, who sheepishly agreed to patch the hole.
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With the fix, the house, already a model of energy efficiency, will use even less energy and save its residents money — for decades.
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Cost and Consumer Impacts of South Texas Nuclear Project and Comanche
Peak’s Proposed Expansion Revealed |
Public Citizens Release Report on the Costs of Current and Planned
Nuclear Power Plants in Texas
Texas environmental organizations release a study on solar power's job creation and energy savings potential in Texas.
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Solar Power's Job Creation Potential in Texas |
Texas environmental organizations release a study on solar power's job creation and energy savings potential in Texas.
For copies of the press releases and statements on this report go to our news section.
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What can cities do to increase energy efficiency?
Sierra Club applauds the City of Edinburg for reaching Cool Cities status
EDINBURG, July 19 - The Sierra Club has applauded the City of Edinburg for signing on to a national climate protection agreement and thus becoming the first Rio Grande Valley city to join the Cool Cities Campaign.
A Cool City, a national initiative sponsored by the Sierra Club, is one that has made a commitment to cut down on environmentally harmful emissions locally, and implement smart energy policies that save taxpayers dollars.
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Mark Peña at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge |
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Latest News
July 31, 2010
ERCOT market monitor: Wholesale price drops in 2009 helped consumers, hurt market
Consumers benefited in 2009 from some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc. region has seen in recent years, but the market suffered, according to an annual report issued by ERCOT's independent market monitor.
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July 31, 2010
Enough already
Texas needs to stop suing the EPA and start complying with clean air laws.
This is getting tiresome. The state of Texas, which has been fighting for years to avoid complying with national standards on noxious emissions, is once again putting its energies — and our precious tax dollars — into suing the federal government instead of cleaning up our air.
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June 16, 2010
Texas proposes changes to air-permitting program
In a standoff between state and federal environmental authorities on how to regulate air polluters, the state appears to have blinked - or at least winked.
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March 21, 2010
NRG to begin building solar plant
EL PASO -- NRG Energy plans to begin construction this year on a giant solar plant in the Santa Teresa area to supply electricity to El Paso Electric.
Officials with NRG, a New Jersey power plant developer and operator, would not provide a specific starting date for the project announced in June.
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Jan 12, 2010
Southwestern strikes deal to get all power from wind
Southwestern University will get all its electricity for the next 18 years exclusively from wind power in an agreement with the City of Georgetown signed Tuesday.
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Dec 16, 2009
The Opacity of Hope
The 120 or so people gathered at J. Gilligan's Bar and Grill in Arlington recently were celebrating an early Christmas present. The party was hosted by the Downwinders at Risk, an environmental group based in North Texas, in honor of the recent appointment of Al Armendariz as regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, making him the top environmental official in Texas.
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June 1, 2009
Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk
Reuters:
Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three U.S. refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University sponsored by the National Commission on Energy Policy released on Monday..
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May, 2009
Green Star State
Texas Monthly:
Everything you—and our legislators up at the Capitol—need to know about how to make Texas an energy leader for the twenty-first century.
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Featured Program
PROJECT GREEN
The CO2 State
Texas produces more carbon emissions than most countries, but the state government and business community don't seem too concerned.
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