{"id":702,"date":"2011-02-08T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texasenergyexchange\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:40:12","slug":"update-tceq-buckles-on-oil-gas-rules-under-pressure-from-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2011\/02\/08\/update-tceq-buckles-on-oil-gas-rules-under-pressure-from-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"(Update) TCEQ Buckles On Oil &#038; Gas Rules Under Pressure From Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texasenergyexchange\/2011\/01\/28\/tceq-buckles-on-oil-gas-rules-under-pressure-from-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last week we lamented\u00a0about the TCEQ\u2019s capitulation to industry pressure on proposed rules dealing with emissions from oil and gas facilities.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/members\/member-page\/?district=90\" target=\"_blank\">State Representative Lon Burnam <\/a>provided us with a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texascleanairmatters\/files\/2011\/02\/Key-TCEQ-PBR-docs-from-PIR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sampling of documents showing the influence exerted by industry <\/a>during the tail end of the process.\u00a0 These are just a smattering of the roughly five reams of paper his office received in response to a public information request.<\/p>\n<p>In hopes that it might serve as a resource to others, we are also posting several other documents pertaining to the rulemaking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texascleanairmatters\/files\/2011\/02\/EDF-comments-TCEQ-OGS-PBR-SP-9_30_10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EDF\u2019s comments on the proposed rule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texascleanairmatters\/files\/2011\/02\/Source-Environmental-O_G-dispersion-modeling-report-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Report from EDF\u2019s air quality modeling consultant<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/documents\/11575_O&amp;G%20Tables%20Comparison%20FINAL.xls\" target=\"_blank\">spreadsheet of results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texascleanairmatters\/files\/2011\/02\/Letter-to-TCEQ-on-Wells.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from EDF to TCEQ about the exclusion of well emissions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/documents\/11576_EPA%20Oil%20%20Gas%20PBR%20and%20Standard%20Permit%20Comments%20100110.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EPA\u2019s comments on the proposed rule<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we lamented\u00a0about the TCEQ\u2019s capitulation to industry pressure on proposed rules dealing with emissions from oil and gas facilities.\u00a0 State Representative Lon Burnam provided us with a sampling of documents showing the influence exerted by industry during the tail end of the process.\u00a0 These are just a smattering of the roughly five reams &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,181],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-gas","category-texas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>(Update) TCEQ Buckles On Oil &amp; 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