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Green Groups Add Muscle in Texas, Gird for Uphill Battles
New York Times: Environmental organizations are spreading their influence across Texas. National and state-based groups are adding staff at the state capital or opening new field offices in other major metropolitan areas.
Electronic recycling takes step forward
KXAN News Austin: Obama administration officials met with senior executives from Sony, Dell and Sprint Wednesday at an Austin electronics recycling center.
The long-term recycling deal
Charles Kuffner: The deal that had been in the works called for 15,000 recycling carts this year and 1,500 carts a year thereafter. That sounds like a lot until you realize that we have 270,000 households serviced by Houston’s Solid Waste department that do not have the big bins.
No-bid recycling contract could get held up
Houston Chronicle: There’s a 20-year no-bid contract fro Houston’s recycling program on today’s City Council agenda. Environmentalists and Council Members are questioning the wisdom of the contract and pushing for an open, competitive bidding process.
This is a TV program Perry should love
Austin American Statesman Editorial: SB 329 would establish a television recycling program requiring manufacturers to take back and recycle a percentage of TVs, based on their Texas market share.
Group, council member seek regulations in Dallas gas drilling
WFAA News Dallas: Staffers from the Texas Campaign for the Environment are going door to door, looking for supporters willing to pressure City Council members into creating tough regulations on gas drilling.
Say Goodbye to Single-Use Shopping Bags in March 2013
KUT News Austin: City Council voted at 2 o’clock this morning to ban single-use plastic and paper shopping bags starting March 2013.
Lovell: Nuclear energy? No, it’s a bad deal for Austin
Austin American-Statesman Op-Ed: Instead of nuclear power, the task force recommended keeping bills low using energy efficiency, renewables, and gas while ramping down our share of the Fayette coal plant.
Environmental groups sue Lower Colorado River Authority
Austin Business Journal: Three anti-pollution groups have accused the Lower Colorado River Authority of committing 10,000 violations against the federal Clean Air Act.
EPA chief calls for e-waste export ban
E-Scrap News: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called for stronger legislation governing the export of scrap electronics.
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