AUSTIN Most residents in rural Fayette County, about halfway between Austin and Houston, had no idea in 2016 their community was about to be on the receiving end of 40 million pounds of sewage sludge every year.
That is until a legal notice published in the back pages of the local newspaper alerted residents of the application to use ranchland along the Colorado River as a dumping ground for the sludge trucked in from Texas capital city. After that notice appeared in our newspaper, there was a public outcry, recalled Regina Keilers, publisher of the Fayette County Record. And within weeks, the application was withdrawn.
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Texas House panel weighs anti-renewable energy bills fueled by winter storm
The bills would tack big, grid-related costs on wind and solar power producers, who say that would chill, possibly halt, their rapid growth.
An official with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said in February that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, were offline during the winter storm. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy.(Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune)
AUSTIN A package of bills debated by a House panel this week aims to attack the state’s burgeoning renewable energy industry through added charges and responsibilities.
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