Hearing Concluded on LCRA’s Groundwater Permit Application

by lfpar | Uncategorized

Proposal for decision, announced early in 2020, is a victory for Environmental Stewardship (The following information is shared directly from our clients at Environmental Stewardship.) A contested case hearing before two Administrative Law Judges on LCRA’s application...

Parties Rest their Cases in Hearing on LCRA’s Application for Groundwater Permit

by lfpar | Uncategorized

We are proud to share the following update from Environmental Stewardship: Pictured: FPAR Attorneys Marisa Perales and Eric Allmon presenting at SOAH We finished the contested case hearing on merits today right at the closing bell. Using the baseball analogy, we had...

April 24th Legislative Hearing

by lfpar | Environmental News

Legislative testimony On April 24th Eric Allmon and Marisa Perales testified at a legislative hearing on behalf of the firm and Texas Center for Policy Studies. Eric spoke about the problems surrounding landfill “placeholder” applications, in which applicants submit...

Post Oak Landfill: Protestants file suit over TCEQ remand

by lfpar | Environmental News

  A collection of landowners and local governments have filed a lawsuit in state district court challenging the failure of  the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to deny the permit application of   Post Oak Clean Green for a new landfill in...

Typical Schedules for Environmental Permitting at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”)

by lfpar | Environmental News

There are three potential stages to TCEQ permit deliberations:  (1) an application to draft-permit stage, (2) a hearing stage, and (3) a post-hearing/pre-final-order stage.   For the overwhelming majority of permits, there is only stage (1) and a day or so for stage...