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SUMMARY:ACT Lobby Day
DESCRIPTION:The Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT) will hold a Lobby Day\, with Texans from across the state coming together to call on the Legislature to strengthen environmental protections. We hope you can join us!\n  \n\nSign up to attend and we’ll schedule meetings with your state representative and senator and invite you to an issues briefing on April 6.\n \nKey Issues: \n\nThe state’s main environmental regulator\, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)\, is currently going through “Sunset review\,” which means the Legislature must vote to reauthorize the agency to continue its work. This provides a unique opportunity to reform the agency to improve public participation in the permitting process\, raise penalties against polluters\, and clean up our air\, water\, land and climate.\n \n\nOur air is polluted\, with about half of Texas’s population living in areas that fail federal standards for smog pollution. About a third of our rivers\, lakes and streams are unsafe for swimming and fishing.\n \n\nTCEQ is the largest statewide environmental agency in the country\, but it is broken. Called a “reluctant regulator” by the Sunset Commission\, the TCEQ too often rubber stamps pollution permits without properly giving the public a chance to weigh in. TCEQ rarely fines companies who violate the law; when they do\, the fines are often just a slap on the wrist.\n \nSolutions: \n\nACT is supporting a robust Sunset Bill that requires TCEQ to raise the maximum daily fines from $25\,000 to $40\,000 for lawbreakers\, follow federal law on public participation in permitting and consider cumulative impacts in all major permits.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/act-lobby-day/
LOCATION:Texas Capitol Building Room E2.022\, 1100 Congress Ave.\, Austin\, TX\, 78701\, United States
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