Environmental group cheers new Texas laws

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Published 05 August 2011 11:07 PM
Related items AUSTIN — New laws to conserve water, promote solar panels and disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing have received a thumbs-up from a state environmental group.

Other measures the group considered hostile to the environment also passed, according to a scorecard released this week by the Texas League of Conservation Voters.

Texas lawmakers considered a large volume of environmental legislation, and a number of bills favored by the league became law, said executive director David Weinberg.

“Still, to be certain, the Lone Star State has a long way to go before it’s truly green,” Weinberg said in a statement.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/texas-legislature/headlines/20110805-environmental-group-cheers-new-texas-laws.ece

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1. A long way to go

But it's a start. Anytime when we get any kind of movement forward in Texas it's really big.

Like TLCV says

“Still, to be certain, the Lone Star State has a long way to go before it’s truly green,” Weinberg said in a statement.

:applause::applause::applause:

[svpadgham]

2. I think the combination of

heat, drought, and general suckitude has got even our politicians (dare I say?) thinking.