Citizens and Environmental Groups to Challenge ...
Media Advisory
For Release: JANUARY 31, 2007
Contacts:
Rita Beving, Dallas Sierra Club, 214-373-3808
Becky Bornhorst, Downwinders at Risk, 972-230-3260, 214-912-2093 cell
Tom "Smitty" Smith, Public Citizen, 512-477-1155, cell 512-797-8468
Gary Stuard, Interfaith Environmental Alliance, 214-564-9329
CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
TO CHALLENGE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
as DRAFT DFW AIR PLAN FALLS SHORT OF FEDERAL STANDARDS
AND PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH
PRESS CONFERENCE and PUBLIC HEARING
Tonight citizens and environmental groups will testify and lay challenge to
the draft DFW air plan during a public hearing regarding the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) draft DFW clean air plan.
Citing that the region has already dealt with two failed air plans, citizens
will claim that the 9-county region will once again face probable failure in
meeting federal standards as the plan falls short of the mandated requirements
under the Clean Air Act.
Testimony will identify that the plan misses its goal, barely achieving a
technical, legal solution with no margin of error. Groups will claim that in the
final analysis, incomplete and inconclusive data was used in producing the
draft plan.
Additionally, citizens will state that the draft air plan lets two of the
biggest polluting industries "off the hook" once again – namely the cement plants
in Ellis County and the coal-fired electric generating power plants.
The new air plan does not take into account the existing power plants in East
Texas or the 17 proposed coal-fired power plants currently moving through the
TCEQ's permitting process. Emissions from the coal trains that would be
traveling daily through the region carrying Wyoming powder basin coal to at least
14 of those plants were also not considered in developing the plan.
Additional public hearings will be held tomorrow Feb.1st at 2 pm at
Arlington City Hall and at 6:00 pm at the Midlothian Civic Center with written
comments taken by the TCEQ through February 12, 2007.
The TCEQ must submit its final plan to the EPA by June 2007. The EPA is
expected to rule on the plan by the end of the year.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 31
Press Conference at 6:30 pm in Dallas Downtown Library Lobby
Public Hearing at 7:00 pm in the Library auditorium
WHERE: Dallas Downtown Library, 1515 Young St., corner of Young/Ervay
WHO: Dallas Sierra Club, Downwinders at Risk, Public Citizen, Interfaith
Environmental Alliance
PHOTO OPS: Citizen wearing badges and giving testimony to the state
Smokestack float featuring Rick Perry and Dirty Industries
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For Release: JANUARY 31, 2007
Contacts:
Rita Beving, Dallas Sierra Club, 214-373-3808
Becky Bornhorst, Downwinders at Risk, 972-230-3260, 214-912-2093 cell
Tom "Smitty" Smith, Public Citizen, 512-477-1155, cell 512-797-8468
Gary Stuard, Interfaith Environmental Alliance, 214-564-9329
CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
TO CHALLENGE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
as DRAFT DFW AIR PLAN FALLS SHORT OF FEDERAL STANDARDS
AND PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH
PRESS CONFERENCE and PUBLIC HEARING
Tonight citizens and environmental groups will testify and lay challenge to
the draft DFW air plan during a public hearing regarding the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) draft DFW clean air plan.
Citing that the region has already dealt with two failed air plans, citizens
will claim that the 9-county region will once again face probable failure in
meeting federal standards as the plan falls short of the mandated requirements
under the Clean Air Act.
Testimony will identify that the plan misses its goal, barely achieving a
technical, legal solution with no margin of error. Groups will claim that in the
final analysis, incomplete and inconclusive data was used in producing the
draft plan.
Additionally, citizens will state that the draft air plan lets two of the
biggest polluting industries "off the hook" once again – namely the cement plants
in Ellis County and the coal-fired electric generating power plants.
The new air plan does not take into account the existing power plants in East
Texas or the 17 proposed coal-fired power plants currently moving through the
TCEQ's permitting process. Emissions from the coal trains that would be
traveling daily through the region carrying Wyoming powder basin coal to at least
14 of those plants were also not considered in developing the plan.
Additional public hearings will be held tomorrow Feb.1st at 2 pm at
Arlington City Hall and at 6:00 pm at the Midlothian Civic Center with written
comments taken by the TCEQ through February 12, 2007.
The TCEQ must submit its final plan to the EPA by June 2007. The EPA is
expected to rule on the plan by the end of the year.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 31
Press Conference at 6:30 pm in Dallas Downtown Library Lobby
Public Hearing at 7:00 pm in the Library auditorium
WHERE: Dallas Downtown Library, 1515 Young St., corner of Young/Ervay
WHO: Dallas Sierra Club, Downwinders at Risk, Public Citizen, Interfaith
Environmental Alliance
PHOTO OPS: Citizen wearing badges and giving testimony to the state
Smokestack float featuring Rick Perry and Dirty Industries
###
posted by Downwinders At Risk at
12:04 PM
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