The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality met on August 10, 2022, to discuss regular agenda items, including several hearing requests brought to the Commission by various parties. The Commission also [...]
Representative Erin Zwiener hosted a press conference with Environment Texas, Texas Sierra Club, and the Harris County District Attorney to “discuss the failures of TCEQ and Texas Attorney General Ken [...]
Below is a press release spotlight on actions by AG Ken Paxton concerning federal policy and interstate relations. Paxton Leads Coalition to Stop EPA from Banning All Uses of Chrysotile [...]
The Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) was created by the 87(R) Texas Legislature with the task of establishing an official statewide plan for expanding broadband access. BDO’s guiding principles in making [...]
The Supreme Court ruled on a major climate case that curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) options for limiting greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The White House had argued [...]
EPA’s Office of General Counsel has released EPA Legal Tools to Advance Environmental Justice (EJ Legal Tools – pdf 206pgs), an updated and expanded compilation of legal authorities available to [...]
The Texas Water Development Board met on July 7 to take up a number of items. The board approved financial assistance totaling $10,808,455 for water, wastewater, and flood projects. $264k [...]
Comptroller Glenn Hegar has sent a letter to the Texas Congressional Delegation about his concerns regarding the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment [...]
At its open meeting on June 28, 2022, the Railroad Commission proposed one rulemaking and adopted another. The proposed new rule §3.66 regarding weather emergency preparedness standards implements provisions of [...]
The Senate Business & Commerce Committee met on June 29 to hear invited and public testimony on the following interim charges: Monitoring the implementation of House Bill 5 and House [...]