Category: Environmental News
(Houston) – June 13, 2017 – Note from the Editor
My responses to the TCEQ Commissioner’s Question of me and the Austin American Statesman Article about my commissioner candidacy:
–“Won’t (more…)
Gulf Winds International, Inc. successfully completes its 2016 emissions reporting with SmartWay Transport Partnership. SmartWay’s Partner tools are used to measure progress toward cleaner (more…)
(Austin) – June 8, 2017 – Note from the Editor
Below is a copy of yesterday’s speech imploring TCEQ to begin simplifying the environmental regulatory system.
To (more…)
(Houston) – June 5, 2017 – Note from the Editor
Will TCEQ choose to incorporate regulatory self-discipline into their lives on Wednesday . . . or choose the path of business as (more…)
(Houston) – May 30, 2017 – Letter from the Editor –
Do the TCEQ Commissioners have the courage to tell staff they are wrong when it comes to the need to simplify the regulatory system (more…)
(Houston) – May 26, 2017
Trump’s formal budget cuts EPA spending by 30 percent.
$8.2 billion is eliminated.
Over 3,000 staff . . . gone.
Less Money to TCEQ
Less money will (more…)
(Houston) May 19, 2017
The TCEQ Chief Clerk today set June 7th as the date that TCEQ Commissioners will decide whether to begin a concerted effort to move in the direction of simplifying (more…)
Decision to begin decreasing rather than increasing the complexity and size of the Texas environmental regulatory system is now less than 30 days away
(Houston) – May 15, 2017
TCEQ (more…)
(Houston) – May 1, 2017
Letters from then sitting Mayor Bill White and TCEQ Chairman Kathleen Hartnett White to Congressman Barton in support of TCEQ Commissioner Candidate Jed Anderson’s (more…)
May 1, 2017 (Houston)
By James Smith – “Environmental Alert” (Schirrmeister, Diaz-Arrastia, Brem LLP)
Based largely on a determination that ExxonMobil received a multi-million dollar benefit (more…)
