Topic: Texas Commission On Environmental Quality
Texas commission to release review of state environmental agency blasted in 2 auditsIn the decade that Texas' environmental regulatory agency has received two scathing audits, it has changed its name, increased collection of fines and gone head-to-head with oil giant BP.It is ...
A group of major chemical manufacturing plants and petroleum refineries within the City of Houston are trying to have new clean air regulations mandated by the City declared unconstitutional. The BCCA Appeal Group argues that the new city ordinance directly challenges the ...
A recent example of this is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) clean-air permitting program. Currently, TCEQ has authority to issue permits under a prior EPA approval of its 1992 NSR program. However, EPA does not agree with TCEQ's reform plan ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it had disapproved parts of Texas' program for permitting new industrial pollution sources.The action will not affect permits at the state's refineries, in which Texas leads the nation.EPA has been wrestling with ...
Manure project grants are federally funded programs that are designed to promote energy efficiency by developing the appropriate technologies for managing livestock waste. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality--TCEQ The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality awards grants to fund rural communities who are ...
Republicans, Democrats, industry press to get Texas to issue EPA-approved operating permitsAfter a lobbying push by oil giants, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators have asked state environmental regulators to quickly solve a permit dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that ...
APNewsBreak: Environmental groups accuse Exxon Mobil of thousands of Clean Air Act violationsThe largest U.S. oil refinery violated federal air pollution laws thousands of times during the last five years, releasing 10 million pounds of illegal pollution, including cancer-causing toxins, without facing ...
DISH, Tex.-A satellite broadcasting company bought the rights to rename this town a few years ago in exchange for a decade of free television, but it is another industry that dominates the 200 or so residents: Five facilities perched on the north ...
BP Plc restarted ultraformer No. 3 at its 455,790 barrel per day (bpd) Texas City, Texas, refinery on Friday, according to a notice filed with state pollution regulators. The unit, which is a reformer, tripped offline on Friday morning and was brought ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two environmental groups called on Thursday for a wider investigation of pollution released by a July 19 fire at Citgo Petroleum Corp's Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery.The Sierra Club and Citizens for Environmental Justice said hydrogen fluoride spread from the ...