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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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 »
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 [...]
Radioactive Waste Dump Ruling Comment Period Through Dec. 26th
Posted in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste, Texas Legislature, tagged Nuclear Regulatory Commission, radioactive waste on November 29, 2010 | 10 Comments »
People will have through Dec. 26 to provide feedback to a rule published by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission (the Commission) this weekend that could allow radioactive waste to be shipped from around the country to Andrews County for storage. As proposed, the rule would give up to 36 states the ability to [...]
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, [...]
Houston Redistricting Hearing
Posted in Campaign Finance, Consumers, Good Government, Texas Legislature, tagged Government, houston, redistricting, Texas Legislature, tx on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come one, come all. The House Committee on Redistricting is taking public testimony at hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will help shape the districts for both the house and senate of the Texas legislature, Texas congressional districts, and districts for the election of judicial officers or of governing bodies or representatives of political subdivisions or [...]
Justin Bieber tickets or early filing of AZ styled immigration reform . . . what to do, what to do?
Posted in Texas Legislature, tagged arizona, Debbie Riddle, Immigration on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OMG, how excited are Texas Republicans to file their own Arizona-style immigration reform? You’d think this was the line for Justin Bieber tickets . . . NOT. . . Saturday afternoon, State Rep. Debbie Riddle pitched a make-shift campsite outside the floor of the Texas House of Representatives to make sure she was the first in line when [...]
Redistricting and the mid-cycle election
Posted in Campaign Finance, Texas Legislature, tagged Democratic, gop, redistricting, republican, State legislatures, Texas, United States Congress on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Republican gains in Congress were the major stories for the national media, but it is the party’s gains in down-ballot local state house races that may have created the most lasting protection for the GOP‘s new majority in the House of Representatives. Once every decade, state legislators begin the process of redrawing congressional districts to [...]
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