The much anticipated hearing between the Environmental Protection Agency and Texas regarding the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will occur this morning in Dallas, Texas. The hearing is set to begin at 10:00 AM and is expected to continue through 7:00 PM this evening. The hearing will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the [...]
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EPA v. Texas: Showdown in Dallas
Posted in Global Warming, tagged clean air act, climate change, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Public Citizen, TCEQ on January 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »
EPA wants to move ahead and issue Texas greenhouse gas permits
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, greenhouse gas, Texas, United States courts of appeals, United States Environmental Protection Agency on January 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked a Washington court to allow it to issue greenhouse gas permits in Texas, even though the state has asked the judges to stop the federal move. The EPA filed its motion on Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. The motion [...]
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 [...]
E.P.A. delaying tougher rules on emissions. Are global warming gases next?
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, Air Quality Standards, clean air act, climate change, Global Warming, global warming gases, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the face of the changes in the political dynamic in Washington, the Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations. The new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks, but this move will leave in place policies set by President George W. Bush while it pushes back deadlines to July [...]
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 [...]
The EPA’s new Tailoring Rule
Posted in Global Warming, tagged clean air act, greenhouse gas, tailoring rule, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 100-page proposal, the “PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gases” for public review and feedback in mid-November, providing two weeks for responses by a Dec. 1 deadline. Finalized terms will be put in place by Jan. 2, 2011, in accordance with an implementing “Tailoring Rule” to guide [...]
5th Circuit says Sandy Creek does not comply with Clean Air Act
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Toxics, tagged clean air act, Public Citizen, sandy creek, Sierra Club, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals awarded a major victory to Public Citizen and Sierra Club in their long standing efforts to block the Sandy Creek coal plant near Waco when it ruled that developers improperly started construction without adequate clearance under the federal Clean Air Act. The court overturned a district court ruling saying the developers [...]
Victoria follows EPA Greenhouse Gas rules even if Texas does not
Posted in Air Quality, Global Warming, tagged clean air act, coleto creek, EPA, greenhouse gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Victoria Advocate on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Victoria Advocate, Victoria Environmental Programs Coordinator Marie Lester said that they will be in compliance with the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations.
Texas last holdout on issuing greenhouse gas permits
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, TCEQ, tagged clean air act, EPA, flex permits, fort worth star telegram, George W. Bush, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gases, Major stationary source, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States Environmental Protection Agency on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With states scrambling to align their own rules with U.S. EPA‘s new regulations, which are set to take effect on Jan. 2, 2011 and require regulators to start issuing Clean Air Act permits next year for large stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions, Texas is now the lone holdout, according to an analysis by the National [...]
EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible Permits Program
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, tagged Air Quality, clean air act, Federal Government, federal register, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that the EPA started questioning [...]
Texas’ Dirty-Energy Money Affects California’s Clean Air
Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, green jobs, Renewables, Toxics, tagged Big Oil, California AB32, California Environmental Justice Alliance, California Governor, california unemployment, clean air act, dirty energy, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger, oil refineries, Prop 23, Proposition 23, public citizen texas, public health, Tesoro, Valero on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Not only does the pollution of dirty energy companies extend across other states but so does their influence. Not far from Texas, California is fighting two big Texas oil companies to keep its air cleaner. To give you some background, California passed historic legislation in 2006 that mandates the state to cut 25% of its [...]
Texas sends Hot-headed letter to EPA on CO2: partisan political ploy at its worst
Posted in Global Warming, TCEQ, tagged bryan shaw, carbon regulation, clean air act, deregulation, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, greenhouse gas emissions, greg abbott, Lisa Jackson, Massachusetts v EPA, public citizen texas, Rick Perry, tailoring rule, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Attorney General on August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Monday Aug 2, the Texas Attorney General and TCEQ Commissioner sent a strongly-worded (read: childish and churlish) letter to the EPA saying in no way would Texas comply with regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. But their ploy reeks more of politics than sound public policy.
EPA disapproves Texas “flex permitting” program at TCEQ- new programs must follow Clean Air Act, transparency standards
Posted in Energy, Good Government, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged ACT, asthma, clean air act, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, flex permits, TCEQ, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The EPA announced today that Texas’s much-discussed and derided flex permitting program does not follow the federal Clean Air Act (big surprise </sarcasm>). This was an action that began when the EPA under George W. Bush called into question the transparency and efficacy of the program which allows big polluters to skirt the federal Clean [...]
EPA taking over permitting of Texas facilities: TCEQ’s permitting process doesn’t follow Clean Air Act
Posted in Toxics, tagged clean air act, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA, flex permits, TCEQ, Texas Sunset Advisory Commission on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The other shoe has finally dropped. Back in September 2009, we let you know how the EPA had issued rulings that condemned TCEQ’s air quality permitting practices. And today, the EPA stopped asking nicely and took some action. From the Houston Chronicle: Objecting to how Texas regulates air pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said [...]
North Texas Public Hearing on Ozone Pollution — Have Your Voice Be Heard!
Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged al armendariz, arlington, clean air act, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, governor perry, mayor cluck, north texas, ozone, patrick cox, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Support the EPA’s proposal for a stricter ozone pollution standard Join us for an important public hearing at Arlington City Hall, 101 W. Abram St, Arlington, TX. For more info check out http://www.cleanairtexas.org Texas has the potential to be at the forefront of the green economy and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed new ozone [...]
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