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We’re Third Act Texas -- thirdact.org/texas -- a Third Act working group of Seniors mostly 60+ on a mission to combat the climate crisis, promote adoption of renewable energy, and revive democracy in the U.S. 🌎

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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How much time do we have? #climate www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LTG...
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Our Last, Best Chance to Cool the Earth | Bill McKibben | TED
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Write Gov. Abbott and your Texas State Reps today to demaind a special session: actionnetwork.org/letters/call...
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Call for a Special Session of the Texas Legislature on Data Centers
Write Your Texas Rep and Senator. Demand the Governor Call an Immediate Special Session. Data centers are being permitted in Texas at a breakneck pace, straining our power grid, draining scarce water...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Special legislative session is needed to enact data center legislation now, before the midterm elections. - bsky.app/profile/ktsm...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“Opportunities for Clean Energy in Texas: Idealism vs. Reality” Becoming Effective Renewable Energy Advocates - June 24 at 5:30 pm - thirdact.org/texas/events...
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Third Act Texas Statewide June Zoom Event
Featured Presentation: “Opportunities for Clean Energy in Texas: Idealism vs. Reality” Becoming Effective Renewable Energy Advocates Presented by: Tracy Wallace, Chair of the North Texas Renewable Ene...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Is it double-dealing when an Atty General running for the US Senate tries to prevent the registering of voters who might vote against him? Hmmm www.joltinitiative.org/news/jolt-vi...
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Federal Court Halts Texas Attorney General’s Attempt to Shut Down Latino Voter Registration Organization
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Tell Austin City Council to Vote NO on Purchasing Polluting Gas Peakers for Austin Energy
Write Austin City Council Today! Austin Energy is asking the Austin City Council to approve the purchase of additional methane gas-burning peaking power generation (a gas power plant). And worse,...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This case is heating up. Stay tuned for news about public permit hearings at the #TCEQ on the Dow Chemical plastics dump. insideclimatenews.org/news/1204202...
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A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On - Inside Climate News
Four decades into her crusade against Texas petrochemical plants, a retired shrimper remains determined to fight Dow, the largest chemical company in America.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Act Now to Stop Dow Chemical from Pouring More Plastics into Texas Waterways and the Gulf of Mexico
Dow Chemical is requesting a permit from Texas to allow the discharge of plastic pellets and PVC powder from its Seadrift petrochemical complex near Victoria into the Victoria Barge Canal,...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Urgent Action Now to Rein in ICE: As citizens of our country, we have the right and the obligation to voice our concerns. Now is the time to contact our representatives in Washington and make our voices heard. thirdact.org/texas/2026/0...
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Urgent Action Now to Rein in ICE
Lets strike while the iron is hot. As the Trump administration continues to violate the constitution, and Congress continues to be complaisant, the events in Minneapolis these past few weeks...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A global energy boom is happening. But not the one Trump promised. #fossilfuels #renewableenergy thirdact.org/texas/2026/0...
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Trump promised an energy boom. Texas got oil layoffs instead.
A global energy boom is happening. But not the one Trump promised. News Analysis Essay By Nan Hildreth President Trump is working to make the oil price fall. That’s bad...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our democracy and our nation have been severely tested before. And as badly today as ever. Will we save it again? www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It was a great Sun Day in Austin - congratulations to all the partners and planners! Enjoy the Sun Puppet march.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Bill McKibben will be in Houston this week. thirdact.org/texas/events...
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Houston: Bill McKibben to talk solar sense in local appearance
Bill McKibben, Third Act founder and environmental activist who first sounded the alarm with The End of Nature, will be in Houston this week to preach the solar power gospel....
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Why Texas Is So Vulnerable to Climate Disasters - Bloomberg Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Why Texas Is So Vulnerable to Climate Disasters
As its population grows and climate change causes more extreme weather events, the state is likely to suffer more losses in the coming decades.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
Republicans in Congress are trying to ram through the Trump Tax Scam, a bill that makes extreme cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Under ...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Let your elected officials know that we do NOT intend to go back.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Gas Is Dirty. LNG Proponents Ignore the Facts—and the Human Toll.
LNG is one of the biggest sources of methane pollution
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Help block terrible bills from advancing in the Texas Legislature
Republican lawmakers in the Texas House are pushing two terrible bills to block cities from doing almost anything to address environmental issues. Act now to stop this attack on local...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Come meet Third Act climate rider Donna Minter in Austin on May 9. thirdact.org/texas/events...
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Austin: Meet grammy climate rider Donna Minter
Donna Minter is a Third Actor based in Minneapolis who is traveling through Texas on a 70-day bicycling journey to raise $500,000 for Third Act and other climate organizations. On...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Interested in cleaning up your personal finances? This valuable webinar is coming up April 22:
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Webinar: Divest, Enhance, Impact – What Kind of Values Investor are You?
TH!RD ACT Upstate New York presents a special webinar by LONGWAVE FINANCIAL. In this webinar, learn about a multi-layered approach to evaluating and selecting funds for values-based portfolios. Most i...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 14/04/2025
“This crazy wind ought to be worth something, right? It really blows down here, and so if we can capitalize on it, I’d love to see it.” In our magazine: @josephinelee.bsky.social visits a farming community in the Rio Grande Valley that's been rejuvenated by harnessing the power of the weather.
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The Winds of Willacy: Inside Texas' Largest Wind Farm
The coastal gales of the Rio Grande Valley have helped rejuvenate this small farming community.
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Environmental News Bits @envnewsbits.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
‘Water is the new oil’ as Texas cities square off over aquifers Read the full story at Inside Climate News. In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital…
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‘Water is the new oil’ as Texas cities square off over aquifers
Read the full story at Inside Climate News. In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. On one side: Georgetown, the fastest growing city in America for three years straight, which in 2023 signed a contract with an investor-funded enterprise to quickly begin importing vast volumes of water from the Simsboro Formation of the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer, 80 miles to the east.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This year, more than ever, our elected representatives and regulators need to hear from us! We have important opportunities to make progress at the state and local level. Sign up for Third Act training this week: “How to Lobby Policy Makers”.
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Third Act online training: “How to Lobby Policy Makers”
This year, more than ever, our elected representatives and regulators need to hear from us! Our democracy and our climate are under attack like never before – yet we also...
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Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter @texassierraclub.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Texas JUST hit a new winter power demand record - 80,000MW. #ERCOT High demand = higher energy bills for Texans. Don't waste time & money on expensive gas plants and nuclear projects, #txlege should invest in #energyefficiency to lower costs and keep the grid reliable. 🔗: bit.ly/sctx-ee
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What You Need to Know about Energy Efficiency in Texas
What is Energy Efficiency?  Energy efficiency is simply about reducing waste. Energy efficiency aims to decrease the amount of energy required to provide products and services through the use of impro...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A reminder that the idiots-in-charge don't understand the law of unintended consequences.
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How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
LNG insurer Chubb got well-deserved pushback from Louisiana fisherfolks.
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Banner and Flurry of Fake Cash Disrupt Chubb Classic - Rainforest Action Network
Chubb insures methane/LNG export terminals the fisherfolk say are destroying their communities Naples FL — Hundreds of fake bills – featuring CEO Evan Greenberg as a ‘pollution profiteer’ – rained...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
You can join the #TeslaTakedown movement to support #democracy:
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Send Musk a message at a TeslaTakedown event
You can participate in TeslaTakedown, a new movement centered on pro-democracy protests. Participants express concerns over Elon Musk’s influence within the federal government, particularly through th...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/02/2025
Looking for Made in Canada products? This resource is here to help: #canada 🇨🇦
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TheHome | Made in CA
The made in Canada resource to quickly find Canadian products, services and retailers, so you can use your dollars to support the Canadian economy.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Read the game plan, follow the game plan.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Inspiration for the cold days ahead:
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Opinion | The resistance will not be rushed
Resting up to join a peaceful, nonviolent, colorful and multigenerational opposition.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Do politicians think suppressing information makes the underlying reality go away? This is malfeasance, straight up.
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USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Speak out against the funding freeze impacting critical government programs and millions of Americans. Send an email or call your congresspeople right now, and tell them to immediately protest this attack on democracy. thirdact.org/act/call-con...
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Call on Congress to Speak Out Against the Funding Freeze – Third Act
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New online event from Texas A&M:
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Online: Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series
The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy will feature Dr. Gavin Towler, a Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientist for Sustainable Technologies and the Chief Sustain...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
New newsletter!
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Jan. 25, 2025 (No. 2): "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"
So, this happened:
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Are you an Austin Energy customer with a ChargePoint Home Flex? You may qualify for a $50 incentive by setting up a home EV charging station and enrolling in Austin Energy’s Power Partner EV program! In addition, you’ll earn $25 for each year of participation in the program.
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Austin Energy Power Partner EV program
This program offers incentives to residential customers who let Austin Energy make minor adjustments to their EV charging during periods of extreme weather and high energy use in the community.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Every corner of the government is being compromised.
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Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s fir...
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump is likely to approve exports of liquified methane from 14 planned export facilities These approvals would cause an explosion of fossil fuel exports and deliver LNG to mostly Asian markets – which will then drive up prices for US energy consumers, according to a new Department of Energy study.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Formaldehyde is found in pressed-wood furniture, plywood, and particleboard used in cabinets and flooring. And household cleaning products, adhesives, and certain wrinkle-resistant fabrics. Many cosmetics, shampoos, and personal care products use formaldehyde-releasing preservatives.
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EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents an “Unreasonable Risk” to Public Health
The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problem...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
AP reports that agrivoltaics, a method of using land for both solar energy production and agriculture, is on the rise with more than 60 solar grazing projects in the U.S.
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Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work
The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the fields of Texas.
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Climate Action Campaign @actonclimateus.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"President Trump’s actions on the first day of his new administration will compromise the health and safety of communities, increase costs for Americans and leave our families more vulnerable to increasingly severe and more frequent extreme weather events." www.actonclimate.com/post/climate...
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CLIMATE ORGANIZATIONS: TRUMP’S ACTIONS WILL COST LIVES, JOBS
"President Trump’s actions on the first day of his new administration will compromise the health and safety of communities, increase costs for Americans and leave our families more vulnerable to incre...
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Reckless behavior so far from the president towards climate issues - does he really not understand what's happening in the world?
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 21/01/2025
🚨BREAKING The #TaxTheSuperRich movement is going strong! Yesterday Greenpeace international activists blocked the heliport for the #WEF25 in #Davos, today they had a clear message to send INSIDE the conference center! >> act.gp/taxthesuperrich
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/01/2025
Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast. But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info. Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.
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Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Get ready to hear the term Virtual Power Plant - it's a happening thing:
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Sonnen, Solrite to offer free batteries and solar to Texas homeowners
The catch: The companies will own and use the equipment to create a virtual power plant that they are betting will pay off installation costs.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
More support for electric vehicles is coming in Austin:
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Austin Energy receives $15 million in federal funding for EV charging infrastructure
Austin Energy announced it has received a $15 million grant from the U.S. DOT as part of the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program.
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Third Act Texas @thirdacttexas.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Austin: Volts' David Roberts will be doing a two-hour podcast episode taping at UT-Austin on Jan. 28. Because of limited seating, the Volts team requests that you only sign up if you truly plan to come. www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-med...
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