At issue are intermittent streams and headwaters feeding their many water bodies, including streams and wetlands, drinking water supplies are stripped of Clean Water that influence the water quality in downstream rivers, Act protections, including residents of Dallas, lakes, and bays — including many of our drinking Houston, Austin, and El Paso. [...] Earlier this year, Clean Water Action stimulating more intense storms, many areas of mobilized thousands of grassroots comments to EPA Texas will suffer from increased flooding if we and the Army Corps of Engineers urging them to are unable to use the Clean Water Act to protect repeal the Trump administration’s “Dirty Water Rule” wetlands from destruction. [...] At the hearing, more than 9 hours of testimony was delivered to the Sunset Commissioners, largely from concerned and upset residents of communities most affected by industrial pollutants which were used at chemical and petrochemical facilities permitted by Commission members reviewing the performance the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the Texas Commission on Environmental (TCEQ). [...] This Commission will make a final report leaders seemed surprised and upset when the which includes written responses to testimony and Chairman of the agency stated that he was not recommendations to the Texas Legislature regarding familiar with the term “environmental racism.” future directions for the agency. [...] Clean Water Action Environmental racism is a given existence in the will remain engaged in the process up through lives of many who were in the room that day, and and into the next legislative session, January-May who are rarely seen or well-represented in the halls of 2023, to advocate for stronger protections from of agencies or the state capitol as they were that day.
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