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Public commenter urges TCEQ to re-examine "one-mile" affected-party rule and cumulative impacts in Corpus Christi
Summary
A public commenter at the TCEQ meeting urged the commission to drop distance-based standing as the first step in evaluating health impacts and to incorporate medical research and cumulative industrial emissions into permitting decisions for Corpus Christi-area facilities.
During the public-comment period at the Aug. 6 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality meeting, Errol Summerlin, identified as a cofounder of CAPE and currently living in Salisbury, Maryland, asked the commission to reconsider reliance on a one-mile rule for affected-party standing and to account for cumulative industrial emissions when permitting large facilities near population centers.
Summerlin said the commission uses a one-mile measuring stick as a criterion for…
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