HARC teamed with the district and a Houston-based company, Ignite Solar, on the project, which is formally known as the Pasadena ISD Solar Initiative. It was funded with $2 million from a $5.8-million civil penalty paid by Shell Oil to settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit by two Austin-based organizations, the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter and Environment Texas. The two environmental advocacy groups had alleged illegal pollutant emissions at Shell’s Deer Park oil refinery and chemical plant near Pasadena.