A bill has been proposed in the Texas State Senate that would not allow Texas citizens the right to contested case hearings on water quality, air quality and waste permits. Under Senate Bill 957, Texans would only be able to file for administrative review of a new or expanded waste water facility, landfill, power plant, mine, etc. after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality had already granted a permit (which, as we know, they will grant to anyone) and after the facility had begun construction.
Since it is pretty much too late for anyone to stop polluting industries under the current regulatory climate by that point.
If SB 957 had been in effect in the past four years, hundreds of thousands of asthmatic Texas children would have been sucking petroleum coke and coal dust right now, and it would take years to make it stop, if it were even possible. Including my asthmatic child.
This cannot be allowed to pass. Please call your state senator on Monday and ask him or her to oppose Senate Bill 957. Hurry, mamas! The hearing is Tuesday. Pass this on.
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