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 [...]
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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 »
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.
TCEQ Sunset Town Halls – Victoria
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 on November 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
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, [...]
Nacogdoches town hall meeting on TCEQ Sunset – November 30th
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Nacogdoches Texas, Sunset, TCEQ on November 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of a town halls in Nacogdoches the week after Thanksgiving. The Nacogdoches town hall will take place Tuesday, November 30th from from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Parks and Recreation Center. All are invited to attend these town halls to learn about the current TCEQ [...]
Sunset Report Takes Half Step Forward, More Change Needed at State Environmental Agency
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission staff released their report on the Texas Commission on Environental Quality. The Sunset Avisory Commissioners will meet to take public testimony – December 15th or 16th and will vote on their recommendations to the legislature on January 12, 2011. The public can respond to the Sunset staff report up until the [...]
Come tonight to the town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset in Austin
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Austin town hall meeting on the TCEQ Sunset review – Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of Texas campus. (This auditorium is located in the basement level of Sid Richardson Hall.) All are invited to attend these town [...]
Abilene Town Hall on TCEQ Sunset, November 18th
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged abilene, Sunset, TCEQ, Texas on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Abilene, Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Abilene town hall will take place Thursday, November 18th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Unity Church of Christianity. All are invited to attend these town halls [...]
Lubbock Town Hall Meeting on TCEQ Sunset
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged lubbock, Lubbock Texas, TCEQ, texas tech university, Town Hall Meeting on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Lubbock town hall will take place Friday, November 19th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Texas Tech School of Law. All are invited to attend these town halls [...]
EPA issues subpoena after Halliburton refuses to disclose fracking details
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged dfw, fracking, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing, United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The EPA said it issued the subpoena after Texas-based Halliburton refused to voluntarily disclose the a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice that has been at the center of a controversy in the DFW area. Halliburton was the only one of nine major energy companies [...]
Austin Town Hall Meeting on the TCEQ Sunset
Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Austin, TCEQ, Texas, Town Hall Meeting on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The list of TCEQ Sunset town halls continues to grow with the addition of town halls in Austin and Lubbock the week before Thanksgiving. The Austin town hall will take place Wednesday, November 17th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on University of [...]
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