Today Environment Texas released our State of Renewable Energy 2025 dashboard. We show that Texas is still #1 for wind, and 2nd for solar and batteries. This session, the Tx Lege should be helping more people get cheap, clean energy, not trying to stop it. environmentamerica.org/texas/center...
Great to see DFW residents calling fowl on House Bill 3187 and Senate Bill 1557, which would cut DART funding by 25%. Dallas Area Transit Alliance has some great resources and a message template for legislators on their site.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
@timmytyper.bsky.social So it goes.
The overbuilding of the interstate system is what happens when "abundance!" Is poorly defined and misguided.
In honor of advancing parking Reform in Dallas, here is the 1949 commentary on parking requirements by Reverend Turner when the city of Dallas proposed requiring parking for churches.
In my opinion it remains one of the best: succinct and attacks its fundamental flaws directly.
ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
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"The more specific clean energy supporters can be in connecting the benefits to local issues that people care about — preserving families’ farms, protecting water quality, investing in local infrastructure — the better."
Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.
And the 89th is off to a running start! My Environment Texas colleagues and I had a lot of great conversations with legislators and staff this week about our priority issues. Curious about what we're working on? Check out our 2025 lege agenda here: environmentamerica.org/texas/articl...
“1.5C was never the difference between safety + ruin, between hope + despair. It was negotiated by govts trying to answer a big q: What’s the highest global temp increase — and associated level of dangers — societies should strive to avoid?”
Well said @zhonggg.bsky.social & @bradplumer.bsky.social
I’m glad that advocates like Bike Denton are out there getting stuff done and making the city safer for everyone.
The most familiar candidate for City Manager, Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, knows Dallas inside and out. Depending on whom you ask, that could be a good or a bad thing.
Love the mason bee(?) photo especially.
We’ve got a number of opportunities to make progress for the environment this legislative session. Here are just a few of my recommendations, which all have bipartisan support.
If you are one of the 60 million people in the path of the storm, and own a portable generator, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms.
One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. Carbon monoxide can kill in minutes.
www.nbcnews.com/weather/wint...
#energysky
“Balcony Solar” - a hot topic!
The question is: how is this DIY, “permission-less” solar allowed in Europe, but not the US - and what’s stopping us here!
I may have some answers!
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Thank you!
Thanks to everyone who turned up to the DART board meeting tonight, everyone who submitted a comment on the form, and everyone who emailed their representative on the board. The bus procurement passed! New busses will be delivered late 2025 to early 2026!