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President Obama Outlines Plan to Tackle Global Warming with Clean Energy

AUSTIN – Tonight, President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas, responded with the following statement: “Tonight, President Obama backed up his bold words on addressing global warming from his inaugural address by outlining clean energy solutions that will pave the way towards a cleaner, healthier future.

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Response to Gov. Perry’s Call for Billions for Water

Statement by Environment Texas Director Luke Metzger: “Texas faces stark choices in how to meet its water needs. We can invest billions of dollars in new environmentally harmful reservoirs, pipelines and desalination plants. Or we can take the more sustainable path and ensure that the industries that consume the most water in Texas use it more efficiently.

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President Recommits to Tackling Global Warming in Inaugural Address

AUSTIN  – Earlier today, President Obama concluded his second inaugural address. Environment Texas Director Luke Metzger, made the following statement in response: “I am pleased that President Obama committed to do more to tackle global warming in his second term, building on the strong foundation his administration laid over the last four years.          

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Chairman Ritter should set aside more for water conservation

AUSTIN – In response to Chairman Allan Ritter’s announcement to transfer $2 billion from the rainy day fund to support water projects in the State Water Plan, Environment Texas’ Luke Metzger issued the following statement:

“We’re calling on Chairman Ritter and other state leaders to set aside at least half of rainy day funds for water conservation, re-use, repairs of leaking pipes and protection of flows in our rivers and water quality. Damming rivers and draining aquifers is very harmful to the environment and we need to exhaust all conservation and efficiency before we spend money on those projects. We need to see a much bigger commitment to conservation and repairs before we can support this bill.”

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ExxonMobil Ends 2012, and Starts 2013, With More Unauthorized Air Pollution

ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery and olefins plant began 2013 the same way they ended 2012: with large, unauthorized emissions of harmful air pollutants into the surrounding neighborhoods east of Houston. A citizen enforcement suit to end such instances of illegal emissions has been pending in federal court in Houston since December 2010. In the final weeks of 2012, ExxonMobil reported three large “emission events” – releases of air pollution not authorized by its federal Clean Air Act permits – to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). In one event alone, 57 tons of sulfur dioxide, a respiratory irritant, were released in just 18 hours beginning just before midnight on December 20, when a compressor “tripped” at the refinery’s Booster Station 4 unit.

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