Texas League of Conservation Voters

Turning environmental values into priorities for Texas

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Texas League of Conservation Voters Releases 2009 Scorecard, 2010 Endorsements

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Texas League of Conservation Voters Releases Legislative Scorecard, Endorses Candidates Who Earned "A" Grade in 81st Legislature ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Texas League of Conservation Voters Endorses Bill White for Governor

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Hunt, Fish, Vote Bill White For Immediate Release February 10, 2010 Texas League of Conservation Voters endorses White as the right choice f...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Texas League of Conservation Voters hires new Executive Director, Looks to 2010

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On November 12, the Texas League of Conservation Voters hired a new Executive Director, David Weinberg. David comes to TLCV from New York St...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Stand Up for Texas!

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As TLCV gears up for the 2010 elections, nothing is more important than encouraging Texans to join us in our fight for clean air, clean wate...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A Conservation Leader Speaks Up

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TLCV is proud to count renowned naturalist Victor Emanuel among our supporters. As a leading authority on Texas wildlife, Victor knows first...
Friday, June 05, 2009

See ya later

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Friends, the time has come for me to move on as Executive Director of the Texas League of Conservation Voters. Now that the legislative ses...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Be A Major League Player

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Imagine a bright future for Texas. Healthy families thriving with a high quality of life. Enough clean air, clean water and affordable clean...
Friday, May 08, 2009

ACT: SB 541 Needs Our Support: Call Your Senator TODAY!

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Our friend Lize Burr from the Alliance for a Clean Texas is informing all of us of an urgent action. Great news! Senator Watson's SB 541...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Beach Erosion Funding Eroding

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Our friends at Environment Texas have startling news. A deal to create funding to maintain our Texas parks and beaches has fallen apart be...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Earth Day Round Up

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Hope all y'all had a nice Earth Day yesterday! Folks generally are noting a sense of hopefulness and excitement this Earth Day, compared...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Happy Earth Day!

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We are already working towards making next year's Earth Day better for every Texan. On May 6th we are throwing a fundraising event to ho...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Join Us as We Honor the Pro-Conservation Class of 2009

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Please Join Us as we Honor the Pro-Conservation Class of 2009 Wednesday, May 6th 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Home of Gary Lee Ewell and Teresa Oppedal...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

No Public Hearing for Cement Kiln Permit

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Today's Dallas Morning News reports that TXI 's cement plant in Midlothian, on the south edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, ...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Austin: Environmental Elections Forum April 9th!

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There's a lot of local races going on in Texas for elections to city councils, for mayors, and more. This week in Austin, there's an...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Global Warming Debate at SBOE: "Getting Out of Hand"

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Here's more on the State Board of Education and science standards. Op-ed in the Austin American Statesman by Jim Marston: "Texas,...
Monday, March 30, 2009

"Irked" about global warming "hooey" in the textbooks

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The headline in the Austin American-Statesman and other Texas papers pretty much got it right: I'm irked. The State Board of Education...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

You are my sunshine

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Happy solar day! Today under the gray skies of Austin, the sun is shining into the Texas Capitol. Today's the day a whole bunch of solar...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Texas Energy Exchange

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The Texas office of the Environmental Defense Fund has started a new blog: Texas Energy Exchange : With a Lone Star State focus, Texas Ene...

"We're ranching electricity now!"

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Last weekend I visited a ranch in the Hill Country between Kerrville and Fredericksburg . The rancher showed me little green and orange fla...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Texas Youth Climate Summit

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Hundreds of students from across Texas will converge on Austin in just a few days for the ReEenergize Texas Summit , the largest Texas Youth...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Court Victory for the Neches River

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From a press release from the Texas Conservation Alliance on Thursday: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday affirmed the July 2008 d...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Cows are the new canaries

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Something is messing with our cows, and it may be the industrial plant up the road. Scientific American reports that cattle downwind from ...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Legislators: Say "no" by saying "yes"

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Every day at the capitol, lobbyists and special interests are asking legislators to "say 'no' to..." something. Say no to...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Houston: Going in Circles?

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How many circles of freeways does Houston need around its girth? One more, according to TXDOT's stimulus spending priorities . The idea...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Dress Up Your Car for Free

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Are you driving around with a naked bumper? Let us help fix your bumper woes . Did you know that one bumper sticker can be seen by over 10,0...
Monday, February 23, 2009

A green economy that includes everybody

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Last week, the League and our partners in the Alliance for a Clean Texas sponsored a successful citizen lobby day. Thank you to the dozens ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A Conversation With Rep. Joe Moody

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Last week we sat down with one of our newly elected pro-conservation leaders, Joe Moody. We talked about the recently closed Asarco plant, ...

Thank you, citizen lobbyists!

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Today dozens and dozens of volunteers from throughout the state of Texas converge on our state capitol building for the Alliance for a Clean...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Thank you

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Here's a nice thank you from Gene Karpinski , head of the national League of Conservation Voters , that's hereby echoed by us here a...

Texas the State of Water documentary aired last night

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For geeks like us, who not only want to understand the importance of fresh, clean water to Texans, to Texas agriculture, wildlife, wetlands,...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

2007 Legislative Scorecard scores of 2009 Key House Committee Members

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Just a couple of hours ago, an announcement was made about the membership and leadership of Committees in the Texas House. Following is a li...
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2007 Legislative Scorecard

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Folks, the link to our 2007 Legislative Scorecard isn't working today for some reason. While the tech folks try to fix it, I've uplo...
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Three environmental sites rank among most endangered in Texas

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Preservation Texas lists the ten Most Endangered Places again this year. In addition to historic buildings, including the Governor's M...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Texas Water

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The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife has made a really good hour-long documentary film about the state of water in Texas. The film, ...

Environmental Vaues: Transportation

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This legislative session, the Texas Department of Transportation is up for "sunset" review. Additionally, a number of legislators ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Texas Cities: Dereg led to higher power costs

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The coalition Cities Aggregation Power Project , made up of more than 100 towns and cities (from Rockwall to Decatur, Texas City to Arlingt...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

Register Now: ACT Citizen Lobby Day

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It's not too late to register for the ACT Lobby Day ! Mark your calendars and join the League and many other conservation, environmental...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Call to Action: Tell Senators Cornyn and Hutchison to support State Wildlife Action Plans

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More funding for urgent programs for the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife is possible through the federal State Wildlife Grants progra...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Goodbye, Asarco - yet your presence lingers

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We heard it on the Texas Observer blog first: the Asarco copper smelter is closed for good and it isn't coming back! Asarco has been ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Is high speed rail on track for Texas?

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Pardon the pun, but is Texas on track to have high speed rail service between major cities? Could be. Even Governor Perry thinks so . The...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Couple of Interesting Things

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This fine Friday, the Texas League just has a couple of things to update y'all about: Thank you Rep. Joe Farias! Rep. Farias successfull...
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