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Harris County residents oppose permit for concrete batch plant near Jersey Village – Houston Public Media
Natalie Weber / Houston Public Media Jayne Larkin, a Harris County resident, poses near a notice about a…
#Environment #concretebatchplant #Energy&Environment #HarrisCounty #HarrisCountyAttorney’sOffice #local #News #pm2.5particulatematter #TCEQ
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has voided an air quality permit for a concrete-crushing facility in Rosharon after more than a year of resistance from Fort Bend County residents and their elected officials.
#Environment #FortBend #Local #News #AirPollution #ConcreteCrusher #FortBendCounty #Rosharon #Tceq
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Parents of Awty International School students protested Thursday outside a Houston office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which approved a concrete batch plant that is operating near the campus.
#Business #Education #EducationNews #EnergyEnvironment #EnvironmentalJustice #Houston #Local #News #Transportation #AwtyInternationalSchool #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality #Txdot
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More than 100 people attended a public hearing in east Fort Bend County this week to speak out against a proposed new concrete crushing facility.
#Environment #FortBend #Local #News #ConcreteBatchPlant #FortBendCounty #Rosharon #Tceq
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/
Well that's a fuckin' whirlwind of a story. Between this article, and the previous five in the six-part series ("State of Denial"), an (in my opinion) impenetrable case is made that TCEQ is a sham body, riddled with political and private-sector conflicts of interest that make it fundamentally unsuitable as an enforcement vehicle for federal environmental protection laws. It is a prototypical example of regulatory capture.
And the (federal) EPA's refusal to act in the face of that reality makes them complicit, if not downright duplicitous. As far as I'm concerned, the EPA is treating Texas as a Sacrifice Zone in order to allow out-of-state interests to continue accruing short-term returns, at the expense of the long-term health and well-being of Texans.
#TCEQ #texas #RegulatoryCapture #environmentalism #SacrificeZone #EnvironmentalRacism #ICN
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https://www.texasobserver.org/brazos-river-development-pollution-drifting-toward-disaster/
>What’s more, Dow-Freeport is operating with a wastewater permit that expired in 2019 but has been “administratively continued” by TCEQ, according to an agency spokesperson. That means Dow is allowed to follow outdated rules while a TCEQ review of the facility’s new draft permit drags on.
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>“It is concerning that this is coming up on five years, which is, frankly, the length of time a new permit would have been,” said Josh Kratka, a senior staff attorney at the National Environmental Law Center. While Kratka doesn’t know what’s transpiring between Dow and TCEQ specifically, he explained that many companies try to convince regulators that they can’t reasonably comply with pollution limits in order to delay enforcement. “Rather than really crack down, enforcing a solution quickly, the regulators just give them more time,” he said.This article was written in 2023. So far as I can tell, the permit in question, WQ0000007000, was originally granted in 1978. Its latest "approval date" is from 2016, and its latest "expiration date" is... STILL 2019. And yet the permit is still "active" rather than expired.
You can check at: https://www6.tceq.texas.gov/wqpaq/index.cfm
Put in "WQ0000007000" for the State Permit No., click Add, then click Search.
(Sidenote: still using ColdFusion? In 2025? Damn).
Ouch.
#TexasObserver @TexasObserver #BrazosRiver #Brazos #Brazoria #Texas #TCEQ #FreePort #CleanWaterAct #CleanWater
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Thursday temporarily denied an air quality permit for a concrete crushing facility that has drawn fierce opposition from Fort Bend County residents.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #FortBend #Local #News #ConcreteCrushingFacility #ConcreteCrushingPlant #FortBendCounty #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality
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Texas regulators are taking public comment about how they should implement an EPA rule to reduce methane leaks from the oil and gas industry.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #AirQuality #Arlington #DonaldTrump #Epa #Fracking #Methane #OilAndNaturalGas #Tceq #TexasNews #TexasOilAndGasAssociation
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is holding a public hearing for the W.A. Parish power plant in Richmond on Monday night.
#EnergyEnvironment #FortBend #News #FortBendCounty #NrgEnergy #Tceq
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will hold a meeting Tuesday evening to hear public comment on a proposed concrete and rock-crushing facility on the eastern edge of Fort Bend County.
#EnergyEnvironment #FortBend #Local #News #FortBendCounty #RockCrushingPlant #SiennaPointe #SouthernColony #Tceq
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"Houston's Dirty Dozen": new report shows the twelve worst air polluters in the Houston area
#EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #AirAllianceHouston #AirPollutionInHouston #Epa #Tceq
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state’s environmental agency, to halt approving permits for concrete production plants in Texas until the 2025 legislative session.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #ConcreteBatchPlant #LtGovDanPatrick #Tceq #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state’s environmental agency, to halt approving permits for concrete production plants in Texas until the 2025 legislative session.
#EnergyEnvironment #News #ConcreteBatchPlant #LtGovDanPatrick #Tceq #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency
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Harris County and some Houston community groups are suing the TCEQ over its new pollution standards for concrete batch plants, because they won't take effect for up to 10 years in some cases.
#Business #Court #EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Texas #AirPollution #ChristianMenefee #CivilLawsuit #ConcreteBatchPlant #HarrisCountyAttorney #Tceq
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Harris County is now violating newly-revised federal air quality standards
#EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Local #News #AirAllianceHouston #AirQuality #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Epa #Pollution #Tceq
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, after pushback and outcry from stakeholders in the Houston area, has updated its air quality standards permit for concrete batch plants. Do the new requirements go far enough?
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Texas #AirAllianceHouston #AirPollution #ConcreteBatchPlant #HarrisCountyAttorneySOffice #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality
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Texcon Ready Mix in north Houston has repeatedly violated federal and state laws aimed at limiting pollution, according to Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee, whose office has sued the company.
#Business #EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #AirPollution #ConcreteBatchPlant #HoustonPollution #Tceq #TexasCommissionOnEnvironmentalQuality
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People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers.
#EnergyEnvironment #HealthScience #Infrastructure #News #Texas #Benzene #Channelview #Jancintoport #KSolv #Tceq #TimDoty
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"The Boring Company has applied to discharge 143,000 gallons of treated wastewater daily into the Colorado River near my home. I'm concerned they will not follow the terms of this permit.
They have already received multiple environmental violations and public records show that they are not working with regulators in good faith. "
#Texas #TCEQ #wastewater #Pollution #TheBoringCompany #Bastrop #DamnedBillionairesAgain #Organizing #SafetyViolations
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Elon Musk is polluting Texas.
https://www.keepbastropboring.com/