Over the past weekend, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) adopted the following resolution: BE IT RESOLVED, That the Texas Medical Association (TMA) urges our state, local, and federal government leaders and legislators to act promptly and aggressively to reduce the health burden of pollution from vehicular, diesel, air toxics, and NAAQS criteria pollutant emissions. TMA [...]
Continue Reading →The House Committee on Environmental Regulation will hear important clean air bills today including SB 16 – Senator Averitt’s omnibus clean air and energy efficiency bill. Several address flaws in the TCEQ permitting process. (TCEQ was already in the news this week when Senators Shapleigh, Davis, Ellis and Watson held a press conference on “cleaning [...]
Continue Reading →All last week, ACT-supported legislation received hearings in Senate and House committees. As we said earlier in the month, that might not seem like much of a big deal, but in light of the past three sessions, it really is. Moreover, the tone of the hearings has changed markedly. One good example last week was [...]
Continue Reading →2011 ACT Legislative Agenda
ACT's 2011 Legislative Agenda is now available online. In 2011, ACT calls on the Texas Legislature to safeguard our health and our environment by adopting key recommendations in air, clean energy, land, waste & recycling, water and reform of our state government.
