Doug Lewin, executive director of the Texas Energy Summit, noted in announcing the award:

Lifetime Achievement Award:

The Honorable Brigid Shea, Travis County Commissioner

Commissioner Shea has earned this lifetime achievement award—with an acknowledgement that her work is far from done—and her vision will continue to create a greener future.

As Travis County Commissioner, she has led the effort to create the County’s climate plan, which includes electric vehicles. She also led the effort to get Tesla to agree to the environmental and community benefits in return for their tax abatement agreement with the County. She is co-chair of the Texas Electric Transportation Research Alliance’s regional transportation electrification compact, linking local governments from Austin to San Antonio and everything in between.  She has spearheaded climate preparedness efforts including the first of its kind neighborhood-based fire drill, which won the National Association of Counties Best in Class award. She co-sponsored and passed, with unanimous support, Travis County’s PACE program – the first PACE program in Texas, which has resulted in almost $4 million in energy and water saving investment in Travis County, and over $120 million in Texas.  But those are just recent accomplishments. There are few people in Texas who have worked longer, harder, and more effectively than Commissioner Brigid Shea. For more than 35 years, Brigid has been involved in the causes of clean air and clean energy.

• She is chairwoman of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an organization working to reduce climate change around the globe by harnessing the powers of local government to advance sustainability
• She is known as the visionary who co-created the movement to pass Austin’s Save our Springs ordinance in 1991, protecting Barton Springs for generations to come
• She was a participant in the Rio Climate Accords in 1991
• She was the director of Clean Water Action beginning in 1988 and continues to serve on the Board. There, she played a critical role in the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by organizing and directing outreach efforts to citizens that pressured the legislature to pass the needed legislation.
• As Austin City Councilmember, she helped shift Austin Energy’s direction toward becoming one of the nation’s greenest and cleanest electric utilities through efficiency and renewable energy. Specifically, she pushed for passage of Austin Energy’s first wind deal in the mid-1990s.
• After retiring from City Council, worked as a consultant on the 10 year-long Austin Clean Water Program, which cleaned up the city’s leaking sewer lines in most of its creeks. The program won numerous EPA awards and was listed as one of the top infrastructure projects in the nation;
• Co-founded a small consulting business, Carbon Shrinks, which advised large Carbon emitters how to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; One of her projects, with a cement manufacturer, won the TCEQ environmental excellence award;
• She has been and continues to be a mentor to many women seeking political office

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