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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TCEQ Status Update on Las Brisas Application an Effort to “Fast-Track” the SOAH process
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, tagged Coal, las brisas, TCEQ on October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This morning at a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) hearing, Las Brisas Energy Center attempted to try to move their permitting process along by asking the commissioners to intervene in the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) process, but the SOAH Admininistrative Law Judges (ALJs) informed the TCEQ that changes to their process would [...]
TCEQ GETTING A STATUS UPDATE ON LAS BRISAS
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged Coal, corpus chrisit, las brisas, soah, TCEQ on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will have a hearing at their headquarters off Interstate 35 and Parmer Lane in north Austin regarding a status-update on the air permit application for the controversial Las Brisas coke-fired coal plant proposed for Corpus Christi. Commissioners sent the application back for further review last [...]
Judges Recommend Tenaska Coal Plant Permit Not Be Granted As Is
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged Air permit, alj, CCS, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Global Warming, judge, permit, Public Citizen, soah, TCEQ, tenaska, Texas on October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Administrative Law Judges (The Judges) who heard the case against the proposed Tenaska Coal Fired Power plant ruled Friday that Tenaska’s air permit should not be granted as it stands! “The Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) have concluded, based on their review of the evidence and applicable law, that Tenaska failed to meet its burden [...]
Perry Banks on Texas Politics through Appointments
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged appointments in Texas, bill white, parry patronage, PUC, Rick Perry, rick perry campaign, TCEQ, texans for public justice on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Governor Perry has raised over $17 million in political donations from people he gave jobs to– in the government! Call it cronyism, call it kickbacks– whatever it is, it’s unethical and should be erased from our political sphere and replaced with public financing for public office.
TCEQ Proves Incompetent Once Again, Approves White Stallion Coal Plant
Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, TCEQ, tagged approves, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, coal plant, Electricity generation, Energy, matagorda county, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Public Citizen, regulate, regulation, TCEQ, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, white stallion on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continued their decades-long campaign of ineptitude and inadequacy as they approved the air quality permit for the White Stallion Coal Plant proposed for Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast. Their ruling was unanimous despite the fact that the administrative law judges, who spent weeks presiding over [...]
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 [...]
Federal Investigation of Texas’ Radioactive Waste Dump Urged
Posted in Nuclear, tagged environmental, EPA, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear waste, public citizen texas, TCEQ, waste control specialists, WCS on August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
NRC and EPA called upon to examine radioactive waste site and licensing process, risks of groundwater contamination and potential risks to the Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states AUSTIN – Environmental groups today asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate the radioactive waste storage and [...]
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.
Why Jeopardize Our Health for Dirty Energy Jobs when there are Clean Energy Jobs to be had?
Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, natural gas, Renewables, solar, TCEQ, tagged Air Quality, cap and trade, drilling, drilling moratorium, EPA, TCEQ on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is frustrating that our local and federal governments are strained from taking action to ameliorate our air and water quality because once they try to do so, the other side recites loss in jobs as the result– but never do they mention any public health concerns and the effect that has on the economy.

















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