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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 , , , on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »

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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TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt climate change

Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Senate names conference committee members for TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694)

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Status of TCEQ Sunset Bill (HB 2694)

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , 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 [...]

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Chisum amendment could risk TCEQ losing permitting authority

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , 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 [...]

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TCEQ SUNSET BILL PASSES IN TEXAS SENATE

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Public Citizen joins Fracking Activists in press conference

Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, TCEQ, tagged 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 [...]

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TCEQ and Railroad Commission Sunset Bills Filed

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee to hear from TCEQ

Posted in TCEQ, tagged , on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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.  

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“GASLAND” NOMINATED FOR ACADEMY AWARD

Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged , , , , , on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“Gasland,” the documentary film by Josh Fox, that examines whether hydraulic fracturing of shale formations threatens water supplies and poses other environmental hazards, was nominated today for an Academy Award. The movie is a cross-country tour that included visits to people who live near several drilling sites, including North Texas’ Barnett Shale. If you want to [...]

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Las Brisas coke-fired plant air permit considered by TCEQ tomorrow

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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TCEQ gets an earful from citizens at the Sunset hearing

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Far from the madding crowd

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Sunset Commission hearing keeps going and going and going

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Good Government, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas Legislature, tagged , 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 [...]

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