Naked City
Greens Want Texas Clean
The Alliance for a Clean Texas, a broad statewide environmental coalition, met Tuesday at the Capitol to announce their "four steps to a cleaner Texas." The 27-member body is a melting pot of organizations including fishermen, religious leaders, doctors, and consumer and environmental groups. Among their legislative priorities, ACT called for an increase to the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard, which mandates the percentage of energy generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biomass. Since pioneering a successful RPS in 1999, Texas now has one of the nation's least ambitious goals: 5% by 2015 and 10% by 2020. ACT is advocating 10% by 2015, 20% by 2020.
Also announced were recommendations to...Full story:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-01-21/pols_naked2.html
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(My biggest question is, how can we get such awesome things out of Texas as Willie Nelson, Stories like the one above and about Austin Biodiesel below, the most clean wind energy production in the country, and they still give us the world's greatest SNAKE OIL PEDDLER G.W. BUSHWACK? <<< liar, liar, pants on fire!)
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