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 →Tuesday April 14 was a big day for energy efficiency legislation in the Capitol. Senator Averitt’s SB 16 passed through the Senate on a final vote of 22-8 (with one absence). Often referred to as the omnibus clean air bill of the 81st Session, SB 16 is also among the most important energy efficiency bills [...]
Continue Reading →Representatives of several ACT organizations testified this afternoon in favor of SB 16–Chairman Averitt’s comprehensive air quality and energy efficiency bill–in the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Tom “Smitty” Smith of Public Citizen praised the past effectiveness of TERP (Texas Emissions Reduction Plan). Among his suggetions for the bill, he recommened the committee consider provisions for [...]
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.
