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Public commenters urge TCEQ to strengthen air monitoring and heed SOAH findings on permits
Summary
During public comment, residents and environmental groups urged the new TCEQ chair to heed State Office of Administrative Hearings recommendations, increase PM2.5 monitoring (notably in Travis County), and better address coastal permitting and flaring concerns.
At the Jan. 16 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality meeting, members of the public urged the commission to strengthen air monitoring, particularly for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and to give greater weight to contested-case findings from the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
Errol Summerlin, cofounder of the Coastal Alliance to Protect Our Environment (CAPE), told commissioners the Coastal Bend is being targeted for industrial expansion and urged the commission to heed SOAH recommendations. "When you send a case to SOA, the judges hear all the expert…
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