Remember when everybody was going to lead an extremely expensive charge to save our grandchildren from the horrors of CO2-induced bad weather? Never mind

Texas cities find it can take a lot of green to be 'green' - Houston Chronicle

College Station, the maroon-hued home of Texas A&M University, is finding it is not easy being green.

Four years after launching an ambitious local effort to fight global warming, city leaders say their high hopes have fallen to hard economic realities, forcing them to abandon their green-at-all-costs approach.

The College Station City Council decided last month that its green efforts should be "fiscally responsible" and create "a real and tangible return of investment to the city." The city also no longer will strive be a leader in energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions from carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

...Cities have relied on federal grants to fund their efforts, but the money is drying up. College Station, for one, received $791,000 from the federal government in 2009 to purchase hybrid vehicles and more energy-efficient lights for parking lots, among other projects.