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Renewable Energy Generation and Storage Property Rights Bill Clears Texas Senate

The bill addresses customer protections and limits the scope of municipal ordinances that regulate residential solar regulation systems and adds disclosure requirements to code that are already in lease agreements

 

May 1, 2019

 

Guaranteeing that Texans are allowed to install renewable energy devices at their homes and businesses and, in the author’s words, “protect them from aggressive sales practices” is the intention of a bill that has passed the Texas Senate….
 

Human-Influenced “Mass Extinction” of Earth Species Underway, Biofuels Not a Clear Climate Change Solution: UN Draft Report

A new UN draft report says Mankind is undermining the natural resources needed by Nature’s species, with up to a million to go extinct, and something must be done within ten years to head it off, bringing the report in line with last year’s UN call for rapid, sweeping and unprecedented changes in all societies to head off global warming
 
April 24, 2019

 

A new draft report from the United Nations will likely seek to blame climate change along with shrinking habitat and changes in land usage — human influenced — for a “mass extinction event” that could result in the end of one million species.

Something must be done within the next ten years to head off the worst, the report states, clearly aligning the UN study with last year’s Fourth National Climate Assessment, which called for rapid, sweeping and unprecedented changes in all societies to head off global warming……
 

Energy Resources Committee Looks At Bill to Set Back Solid Waste Sites 2 Miles From Public Schools

RRC Permitting Assistant Paul DuBois pointed out that though the RRC and the TCEQ have a memorandum of understanding that the RRC will permit such sites, the RRC does not look at air quality when doing so

 

 

April 23, 2019

 

The Texas House Energy Resources committee heard testimony on a bill to set back commercial solid waste disposal facilities at least two miles from public schools….