Senate Intergovernmental Relations will meet at 9:30 AM, Wednesday, February 09, 2011 in E1.028 (Hearing Room) to hear invited testimony from representatives from the representatives from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Click here to watch the hearing online tomorrow morning.
Archive for the ‘Sunset’ Category
Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee to hear from TCEQ
Posted in TCEQ, tagged Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sunset chairman supporting Railroad Commission overhaul
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Good Government, Sunset, tagged Texas Railroad Commission, Texas Sunset Commission on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Sunset Advisory Commission is putting the wheels in motion to overhaul the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC). And, the chairman of the Sunset Commission is telling two of RRC commissioners that their agency “badly broken.” Commissioner Michael Williams, the longest-serving member of the trio, has endorsed the overhaul. The Sunset Commission has recommended the Railroad [...]
Las Brisas coke-fired plant air permit considered by TCEQ tomorrow
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged Coal, Corpus Christi Texas, pet-coke, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, January 26th, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will consider the air quality permit application for the Las Brisas Energy Center, a planned petroleum coke-fired power plant that just last month, two administrative law judges said does not meet emission standards. Public Citizen, the SEED Coalition and Sierra Club have all argued [...]
TCEQ gets an earful from citizens at the Sunset hearing
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged clean air act, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A Texas Sunset Advisory Commission hearing, which was part of the first legislative review of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 12 years, drew hundreds of regular citizens from around the state, with most of them saying the agency had failed to protect them from pollution. Dozens of people, including doctors, school teachers, church-going grandmothers [...]
Far from the madding crowd
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged sunset commission, TCEQ, Texas on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s well after 10pm and the crowd at the Sunset Advisory Commission hearing has dwindled, including the commisioners. Of the 12 commissioners, I’m only seeing five still on the dias and as the camera periodically pans the audience, one can see that it has thinned considerably since this morning. Here at Armadillo Christmas Bazaar Jimmy [...]
Sunset Commission hearing keeps going and going and going
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged sunset hearing, TCEQ on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here I am at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar people watching Christmas shoppers (for those readers not from Austin, the Armadillo Bazaar is an annual artist Christmas venue which has been happening in our fair city for 30+ years and runs every day the two weeks before Christmas – yes they are here until 11pm on Christmas eve for [...]
Pecan Grower’s Lament
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged coleto creek, Pecan, sulfur dioxide, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission’s hearing on TxDOT, TxRRC and TCEQ continues, visiting citizens have been sharing their stories with us. Many of them are here to testify about issues they have had with TCEQ, and we hope the commission will move the hearing along so that those who have traveled 3 to 8 hours to [...]
Texas Railroad Commission – The biggest bang for your buck – if you are with the fossil fuel industry
Posted in Sunset, tagged Public Citizen, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Concurrent with Public Citizen‘s release of its report - Drilling for Dollars: How Big Money Has a Big Influence at the Railroad Commission, which details how fundraising by incumbents increased 688 percent between 2000 and 2008 with the biggest driver of the increase donations from individuals associated with the fossil fuel industries – the same industries the [...]
TCEQ to vote on flex permit revisions, but EPA says it still may not be good enough
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged abilene, goliad, Sunset Advisory Commission, sweetwater, tenaska, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, uranium mining on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The proposed revisions to the state’s controversial (and according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - illegal) flexible air permitting programs submitted in June in an effort to reach a compromise with the EPA, are scheduled for a formal vote at tomorrow’s hearing of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Under the proposed revisions, facilities with [...]
Texas vs EPA – the saga continues
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged clean air act, greenhouse gas, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a December 1, 2011 deadline for 13 states to develop plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, as the agency prepares to implement its major new rule January 2. A dozen of the states plan to submit emissions plans that do not account for GHG emissions, thereby triggering federal [...]
Texas’ proposed rule to accept radioactive waste from many other states concerns Vermont
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, TCEQ, Toxics, Transportation, tagged New York Times, nuclear reactor waste, public citizen texas, radioactive waste, smitty, Texas, texas low level radioactive waste dump, vermont, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In an article by the New York Times that focuses on Vermont‘s concerns about losing space to waste from generators in other states, Matthew Wald writes: Waste disposal is so difficult, says the company, Waste Control Services, that power plants and other generating sources have reduced their volumes sharply. And Vermont and Texas together produce [...]
Texas and EPA: Going to battle over waste water permits now?
Posted in TCEQ, tagged Rick Perry, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency, water permits, Water Quality on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publically demanded that Texas immediately take steps to reissue Clean Water Act permits to some 80 facilities that have been operating without the necessary paperwork. Not pleased with what they felt was a decision to, “ jump the gun prematurely with this notice,” the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [...]
Alliance for Clean Texas Town Hall Meeting in Victoria, TX
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged alliance for a clean texas, clean air, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT) hosts another town hall addressing TCEQ sunset.
Support our work!
Subscribe by Email
Socialize With Us!
Categories
Follow us on Twitter- @PublicCitizenTX
- ow.ly/9Gpba 2 months ago
- #BandC the PUC Energy Efficiency rule can be increased, save people money, and keep the lights on. 4 months ago
- Call your Senator and ask them to not block CSAPR! - wp.me/phIHj-3N6 6 months ago
- State Department's tar sands hearing in Austin, TX a farce. Protester arrested - http://ow.ly/6IILh 8 months ago
- Austin Hearing - State Department on Tar Sands Pipeline; from Canada to Texas - Wednesday, September 28th - http://ow.ly/6FwcE 8 months ago
Popular Tags
-
Flickr Photos
More Photos 
Citizen Vox Blog- One year since Citizens United v. FEC January 21, 2011 Rick Claypool
- The Midmorning Refill: Despite oil spill, runaway cars, Jersey Shore, 2010 may have not been the absolute worst year ever January 3, 2011 Dorry Samuels
- The Midmorning Refill: Nancy Pelosi says health care law will be her crowning achievement December 21, 2010 Joe Newman
-
![[Valid RSS]](valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
350 Challenge
Pages
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
Meta
