{"id":1509,"date":"2011-11-10T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2011-11-10T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:44:28","slug":"epa-awards-first-texas-greenhouse-gas-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/10\/epa-awards-first-texas-greenhouse-gas-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Awards First Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/10\/epa-awards-first-texas-greenhouse-gas-permit\/sky-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1515\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1515\" title=\"sky 3\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/sky-3-620x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/sky-3-620x270.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/sky-3-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/sky-3-220x96.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/10\/epa-awards-first-texas-greenhouse-gas-permit\/sky-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1515\"><br \/>\n<\/a>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted its first greenhouse gas emission permit to a Texas facility since the Federal Agency took over the permitting program from the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower Colorado River Authority&#8217;s Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant in Llano County is the first Texas site to be awarded a permit to emit under the new system. The power plant will run on natural gas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe new LCRA plant will use improved environmental controls and install modern high efficiency equipment,\u201d EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">said <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">in a press release out today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/texas\/epa-gives-1st-greenhouse-gas-permit-to-texas-1961017.html\">the Associated Press <\/a>that the Agency was please the LCRA could move forward with the project. However, the Agency still doesn&#8217;t believe the EPA needs to be involved in permitting in Texas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We see no need for \u2014 or any environmental benefit from \u2014 EPA&#8217;s greenhouse gas permit,&#8221; said Andy Saenz, a TCEQ spokesman. &#8220;The TCEQ authorized the project on Sept. 1, 2011 after careful review that determined the permit was protective of the environment and fully compliant with all state environmental regulations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EPA took over the Texas greenhouse gas permitting program after Texas refused to go along with new regulations that State officials, including Goeverner Rick Perry called over-reaching.<\/p>\n<p>Texas was the only state that refused to comply with the new rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted its first greenhouse gas emission permit to a Texas facility since the Federal Agency took over the permitting program from the state. The Lower Colorado River Authority&#8217;s Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant in Llano County is the first Texas site to be awarded a permit to emit under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[31,39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}