(Update) TCEQ Buckles On Oil & Gas Rules Under Pressure From Industry

Last week we lamented about the TCEQ’s capitulation to industry pressure on proposed rules dealing with emissions from oil and gas facilities. 

State Representative Lon Burnam provided us with a sampling of documents showing the influence exerted by industry during the tail end of the process.  These are just a smattering of the roughly five reams of paper his office received in response to a public information request.

In hopes that it might serve as a resource to others, we are also posting several other documents pertaining to the rulemaking:

• EDF’s comments on the proposed rule
• Report from EDF’s air quality modeling consultant and spreadsheet of results
• Letter from EDF to TCEQ about the exclusion of well emissions
• EPA’s comments on the proposed rule