https://amp.statesman.com/amp/8456682002

Opinion piece from a concerned friend in Austin.

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A mounting body of research is making it painfully clear that the state of Texas is both unwilling and unable to manage the massive quantity of emissions being released from flares, storage tanks, and other equipment at oil and gas wells and production sites across the state. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must step in and do what Texas' regulators cannot or will not do.

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Texas making bank. It's time to investigate this lawless land.

I am sure whatever Marxist regulation they propose will bring down energy prices! /Sarcasm

Yet, they bulldoze the hillsides of west Austin and concrete the hill country so more of these arseholes can move in, and of course use lots of gas to to go back and forth into Austin. \

the tone of the OP statement reeks of CONTROL-- control of you, but not them.

Champ Bailey said:

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https://amp.statesman.com/amp/8456682002

Opinion piece from a concerned friend in Austin.

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A mounting body of research is making it painfully clear that the state of Texas is both unwilling and unable to manage the massive quantity of emissions being released from flares, storage tanks, and other equipment at oil and gas wells and production sites across the state. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must step in and do what Texas' regulators cannot or will not do.

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This person is a complete moron. TCEQ does regulate emissions from flares, storage tanks, and other equipment at well sites. 40 CFR part 60 Subpart (NSPS) OOOOa as well as other regulations like NSPS JJJJ and 40 CFR Part 63 (MACT OR NESHAP) ZZZZ do regulate emissions from well sites.

Since TCEQ has primacy over all federal regulations, they regulate these through the permitting system, which includes PBRs with emissions up to 25 tpy of VOC and then Standard Permits for anything up to 250 tpy.

As someone who deals regularly with regulatory agencies all over the country, Texas is one of the more stricter states. The permitting system here is far more robust than many other states.

I really really hate these people.

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About the author, Tim Doty…..

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I worked for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for 28-and-a-half years, including 17 years managing its air mobile monitoring assets, and another 3 years as its Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) Program Manager/Instructor and as an Office of Compliance and Enforcement technical advisor. I did this because I believed in the agency's mission to protect Texans' public health and natural resources. But I retired after it became increasingly clear that the agency's leadership had little to no interest in proactively monitoring, documenting and minimizing air emissions in Texas.

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The TCEQ is a slightly watered-down version of the EPA.
Evidently Tim is a true believer in manmade global warming.

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I refuse to believe this person worked anywhere near their permitting system or in compliance. He has no clue what he is talking about.

Author loses any credibility by attacking the practice of flaring while also discussing the importance of reducing methane emissions. Uh..flaring reduces methane emissions. Now if they want to talk about how existing regulation lags behind the development of technology (monitoring, measurement, capturing, etc), that is a valid argument and discussion to have, but to criticize companies that are operating under the existing limits and regulations is idiotic.

I attended a conference in a past life, that was run by the EPA & TCEQ in Jefferson, Texas of all places.

Cannot even begin to explain how uncomfortable it is to be smack in the middle of the logging industry in Texas with that crowd of insufferable wet blankets. Eta (by insufferable wet blankets I mean the pasty white leftists nut jobs running the event(s)).

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About the author, Tim Doty…..

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I worked for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for 28-and-a-half years, including 17 years managing its air mobile monitoring assets, and another 3 years as its Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) Program Manager/Instructor and as an Office of Compliance and Enforcement technical advisor. I did this because I believed in the agency's mission to protect Texans' public health and natural resources. But I retired after it became increasingly clear that the agency's leadership had little to no interest in proactively monitoring, documenting and minimizing air emissions in Texas.

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The TCEQ is a slightly watered-down version of the EPA.
Evidently Tim is a true believer in manmade global warming.

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People like him are dangerous when they have input or control of public policy on any level. It's good that he's out but bad that he was ever there in the first place.

I work in the energy industry and the amount of AGW / energy transition BS going on is literally insane. Companies are wasting so much money just to placate the true believers, and in the end the world will still need fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. It's sad to see such waste and misinformation, but the true believers are having a huge effect on decisions companies make.

Champ Bailey said:

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https://amp.statesman.com/amp/8456682002

Opinion piece from a concerned friend in Austin.

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A mounting body of research is making it painfully clear that the state of Texas is both unwilling and unable to manage the massive quantity of emissions being released from flares, storage tanks, and other equipment at oil and gas wells and production sites across the state. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must step in and do what Texas' regulators cannot or will not do.

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Simply state the truth: these emissions are actually from body gases exuded by the hordes of illegal immigrants on the border.

Yeah....let's let the awesome EPA regulate us!

Retired, huh.

One of my main gripes about Trump not keeping his mouth shut and the mail in voter fraud, he didn't have a chance to continue gutting and castrating the EPA. TCEQ isn't great, but no reason to have the bloated EPA meddling in state regs on top of that.

Champ Bailey said:

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https://amp.statesman.com/amp/8456682002

Opinion piece from a concerned friend in Austin.

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A mounting body of research is making it painfully clear that the state of Texas is both unwilling and unable to manage the massive quantity of emissions being released from flares, storage tanks, and other equipment at oil and gas wells and production sites across the state. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must step in and do what Texas' regulators cannot or will not do.

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Ok, embargo Texas Oil & Gas from the rest of the Union.

My buddy is very very high up Ing the TCEQ… the EPA doesn't like some of their opinions … they fight for Texas first

Heeeey Tim. Commiefornia is calling.
You should go.

More like a concerned idiot.

I thought this was going to be a post about all the homeless crap on the sidewalks in Austin.

A park ranger told us not to get in the water at McKinney Falls because there was a homeless encampment Upstream and needles and drug paraphernalia were washing down the creek along with human excrement.

Nice Tesla you got there Lib, would stink if the EPA came in and you couldn't power it.

Never would have guessed it

They should fix California first....

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/us/gallery/california-oil-spill-2021/index.html

Just remember, as Americans you have freedoms... specifically you have the freedom to do exactly as you are told to by the elite, otherwise it is an abuse of those freedoms and doesn't count.

TCEQ is so much more effective and efficient than the EPA, it isn't even funny. EPA would have no clue how to regulate Texas industry and trying to give them the task would cause a massive meltdown (which is probably the real goal of the Marxists). One of the big issues was EPA trying to take away Texas' flexible permits. It was a groundbreaking and innovative way to regulate industry in a way that allowed permittees to manage their business with flexibility instead of having to come to the regulators every time something changed. So of course EPA had to try to shut it down.