URGE TEXAS COMMISSION TO LIMIT METHANE POLLUTION!

The EPA has issued new federal rules to limit methane pollution from the oil & gas industry. The TCEQ is required to develop a state implementation plan for these rules. The state rules will require the monitoring of emissions, wasteful flaring, and leaks from all existing and new well sites.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas more than 80 times the warming power of CO2. Methane contributes to climate change and more extreme weather events. Methane also contributes to poor health outcomes. Methane can linger in the atmosphere for more than 10 years.

Texans have a chance to weigh in on how TCEQ should approach regulating methane emissions. TCEQ is asking for public input on the steps it should take. This is a critical opportunity to push for meaningful action, like adopting the EPA's model rule for existing oil and gas facilities. 

Written comments for Stakeholder Input for RPN 2024-027-113-AI 2024 / 0000c Rulemaking and State Plan can be submitted until Dec. 31, 2024. Be sure to include TCEQ’s rule project number 2024-027-113-AI in the comments section.  

For guidelines on how to write a comment, please click here to see the Lone Star Chapter's PDF on their blog page:
https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/blog/2024/10/tell-tceq-adopt-new-rules-cut-methane-pollution 
 

Submit written online comments using the link to through TCEQ’s Public Comment System:
(https://tceq.commentinput.com/comment/search) 

 or send comments via USPS mail to:
Program Supervisor, MC 205 Texas Register/Rule Development Team
Office of Legal Services Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, Texas 78711-3087 

photo courtesy of Al Braden 2022

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Fort Worth Environmental Coalition of Communities (FWECC), a collaboration of environmental and social justice organizations including Echo Heights/Stop Six Environmental Coalition, Northside Fort Worth Air, the Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club and other neighborhood associations, are advocating the City of Fort Worth to ensure Environmental Justice is considered in everything it does. We need your help getting the City Council’s attention.

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