Get tough on environmental crimes Texas law requires that the our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), consider a facility’s past compliance when making decisions regarding permits or inspections. In fact, a facility’s Compliance History score affects every bit of its business with the TCEQ. New rules currently proposed by the [...]
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Texas Pardons Pollution (Again!) – Public hearing next Tuesday and comments can be submitted before March 12th
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Sunset, TCEQ, Water, tagged Hearing (law), pollution, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
RR Commission instituting “real” penalties for repeat offenders?
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, tagged penalties, repeat offenders, Texas Railroad Commission on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Chronic violators of Texas Railroad Commission safety rules may be looking at steeper fines if they don’t clean up their acts. In response to the agency’s Sunset review last session, the commissioners who regulate the state’s booming oil and gas industry are expected to approve penalty hikes in six major categories, taking special aim at repeat [...]
Political favors – how to stop it from ruining your community
Posted in Campaign Finance, Sunset, tagged pay to play, Texas, Texas Ethics Commission, Texas Sunset Commission on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Texas Energy Report, state environmental regulators appointed by Gov. Rick Perry issued a permit in January for a Houston-area industrial waste injection well to a company whose top investors include some of Perry’s close friends and campaign contributors. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approved the permit over the objections of [...]
TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged pollution, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Legislature on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT), and thanks to the efforts of [...]
Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt climate change
Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged climate change, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, imatter, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas government on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Statewide organizations support youth as they appeal TCEQ decision denying petition to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe Three Texas youth and one young adult filed for judicial review today of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) denial of their petition to force action on climate change. Specifically, the rulemaking petition requests TCEQ [...]
Senate names conference committee members for TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694)
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged HB 2694, TCEQ, TCEQ Sunset, Texas Legislature on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the Senate named its conference committee members (conferees) for the important TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694). The Senate version of the bill that the conference committee is considering was significantly better than the bill that came out of the House. Please call the senate conferees this week and tell them you want them to pass out [...]
Status of TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694)
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged HB 2694, TCEQ Sunset on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the Texas House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to HB 2694 – the TCEQ sunset bill. The bill has been sent to Conference Committee and the House has named its conference committee members (conferees). Importantly, no instructions were made to the conferees by the House (in other words no motion was made [...]
Chisum amendment could risk TCEQ losing permitting authority
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says if an amendment to HB 2694 remains on the TCEQ Sunset bill, undermining federal regulations at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ could risk losing its permitting authority and EPA might have to intervene directly in Texas permitting cases. Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Southside Place), whose sunset legislation for the [...]
TCEQ SUNSET BILL PASSES IN TEXAS SENATE
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged TCEQ Sunset, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, texas senate on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Texas Senate just unanimously approved House Bill 2694, the sunset bill for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Senate sponsors Huffman and Hegar fought to pass a clean TCEQ sunset bill and Senators Watson and Huffman clarified the intent of Senators to keep this bill clean in an anticipated House-Senate conference committee. In the months leading [...]
Public Citizen joins Fracking Activists in press conference
Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, TCEQ, tagged fracking on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen was lucky enough to have been invited to the release of the new study Flowback: How Natural Gas Drilling in Texas Threatens Public Health and Safety. We had to split the press conference into three different pieces to get them uploaded, but here we get started with Sharon Wilson and State Rep. Lon [...]
Bill of the Day – SB 655
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, tagged Oil and Gas Commission, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Railroad Commission, United States Environmental Protection Agency on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SB 655 by Hegar, or the Texas Railroad Commission Sunset Bill, suffered a setback in the Senate today.
PUC Sunset bill give the agency more oversight of ERCOT
Posted in Energy, Sunset, Texas Legislature, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Electricity market, Energy, Public utilities commission, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Public Utility Commission (PUC) sunset bill (H.B. 2134) would give the PUC the authority to approve or change the annual budget of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), stipulates that no member of the PUC could work for ERCOT for at least two years after he or she had stepped down, and fines would quadruple [...]
Railroad Commission Sunset bill not a cure-all for fracking, ethics
Posted in Sunset, tagged hydraulic fracturing, Oil and Gas Commission, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on March 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The long-awaited Sunset Bill of the Railroad Commission was released late yesterday, and it’s mostly what we’d expected, but not everything we’d hoped for. Highlights: The Railroad Commission will be renamed the Texas Oil and Gas Commission It will be headed by one commissioner (down from 3) who will be elected every four years on [...]
TCEQ and Railroad Commission Sunset Bills Filed
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Public utilities commission, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Railroad Commission, Texas sunset on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy) filed a bill (SB 655) to abolish the Texas Railroad Commission and eliminate the three statewide elected positions that govern it and rename the agency the Texas Oil and Gas Commission to be run by a single elected officer who would serve a four-year term. The bill has been referred to the Senate [...]
Representative Warren Chisum may run for Railroad Commission
Posted in Sunset, tagged Joe Straus, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Railroad Commission, warren chisum on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
State Rep. Warren Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, Texas plans to seek a place on the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), either by gubernatorial appointment once Michael Williams resigns in April or by running for the seat expected to be vacated next year when Elizabeth Ames Jones declines to seek re-election because of her aspirations to [...]
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