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TCEQ Sunset Town Halls – Victoria

November 23, 2010 by Ryan Rittenhouse

Texans living around the Victoria region attended a town hall in September to express their concerns about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on a number of different issues, including the proposed White Stallion coal plant in Bay City. On the panel were Sunset Commission Chairman Sen. Glenn Hegar, former TCEQ commissioner Larry Soward, the regional administrator of TCEQ for that area, and a lawyer with Blackburn & Carter who often take on environmental cases.

This town hall was one of a series of events held to provide the people of Texas a way in which to voice their concerns to TCEQ. The official Sunset Commission hearing on TCEQ is scheduled for December 15th in Austin. For more video footage of these town halls check our archives and stay tuned to TexasVOX. For more information on the ongoing Sunset review of TCEQ check out Alliance for a Clean Texas.

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Posted in Air Quality, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature | Tagged ACT, alliance for a clean texas, Austin, climate change, Coal, commission, EPA, glenn hegar, Global Warming, larry soward, Public Citizen, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas | 5 Comments

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on November 23, 2010 at 4:23 pm | Reply Ken Fountain

Hello, I’m an independent journalist based in Houston. You can read my coverage of the Houston and Beaumont Environmental Town Hall meetings at the links below:

http://kenfountain.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/houston-environmental-town-hall/

http://kenfountain.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/southeast-texans-participate-in-environmental-town-hall/
on November 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm | Reply Ryan Rittenhouse

Thanks for the links Ken, and thanks for covering this important issue!
on November 23, 2010 at 4:43 pm | Reply Houston audience has its say at Environmental Town Hall « Fountain's Pen

[...] [Read coverage of the Nov. 1 Environmental Town Hall in Beaumont here. Read coverage of a Nov. 4 speech by TCEQ Chairman Bryan W. Shaw here. The watchdog group Public Citizen has a video of the Environmental Town Hall meeting in Victoria here.] [...]
on November 25, 2010 at 7:07 am | Reply Southeast Texans participate in Environmental Town Hall « Fountain's Pen

[...] [Read coverage of a Nov. 4 Houston speech by TCEQ Chairman Bryan W. Shaw here. The watchdog group Public Citizen has posted a video of the Environmental Town Hall meeting held in Victoria here.] [...]
on January 14, 2011 at 11:33 am | Reply It’s Time for EPA to Step In | Freelance and Blogger Jobs World

[...] EPA isn’t the only problem for Perry to worry about. Across the state, Texans are stepping up to voice their concerns in legislative townhalls, in front of the TCEQ Commissioners , and in their local [...]