Austin Town Hall Meeting

Elliot Trester spoke as a panelist at the town hall meeting November 17th along with Robin Schneider of Texas Campaign for the Environment (pictured).

The sunset review of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is a once-in-12-year chance to re-shape an important state agency. The TCEQ controls permitting for energy-producing projects and waste management in Texas. Texas faces many challenges in keeping our air, soil and water clean so that Texas residents stay healthy. Please come – listen, talk with others, speak up, bring friends and colleagues, and testify on December 15. A bill has to pass through the spring legislative session in order for TCEQ to continue to exist.

The November 17 town hall meeting we publicized in October and November saw about 60 attendees, who spoke about the issues they wanted to see come before the Sunset Advisory Commission. Dr. Elliot Trester, Austin PSR Treasurer, and Trish O’Day, MSN, RN, Austin PSR Co-President, participated in the meeting – Dr. Trester as a panelist and Ms. O’Day as an open-mike speaker, both on the topic of the human health impacts of TCEQ process. Asking for substantive reform to how TCEQ currently operates can affect the lives and health of tens of thousands of Texas residents. Part of the process involves the agency doing a self-report, which can be accessed here: TCEQ Self-Report.

November 2010:

7 pm
Bass Lecture Hall

Austin PSR as a coalition partner in Alliance for Clean Texas (ACT) encourages you to come to Austin's town hall meeting about preparing for the Sunset Advisory Commission to review the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Dr. Elliot Trester, PSR board member, will be one of several panelists speaking on how TCEQ impacts human health. State representatives have been invited to the meeting, and there will be an open mike as well to allow people to discuss TCEQ and its needed reforms. More information can be had here: www.acttexas.org