Austin, other Texas cities vie for U.S. 'green' money

From statesman, January 9, 2009...

When Rahm Emanuel , President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, told a group of corporate chiefs in New York late last year that Obama's economic stimulus package would focus on "green infrastructure," the message reached all the way to Austin.

In the Capitol and at City Hall, policymakers are trying to figure out how local governments can cash in on federal largesse. The wish lists that major Texas cities have assembled amount to a smorgasbord of projects that have an environmental bent, whether they put more public buses on the road to cut vehicle emissions or put solar panels atop government buildings.

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