The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is proposing a rule that establishes a new standard permit for permanent rock and concrete crushers. The standard permit would authorize rock and concrete crushers up to 200 tons per hour of production.
By Alex Cuclis (Cuclis has been a research scientist at the Houston Advanced Research Center since 2004. Prior to that, he spent two years performing air quality studies with the University of Houston and 13 years at Shell’s Deer Park Complex. He has degrees in chemical engineering (UT-Austin) and analytical chemistry (UI-Urbana). He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon.)…
By Leslie Ness (Leslie is CEC’s intern. She has degrees in communication and nursing. We sent her to the EPA hearings to report her impressions. For other reports, see this Chronicle article and this Houston CLEAN report.) As I drove into Houston’s Manchester neighborhood to attend Tuesday’s hearing on the EPA’s proposed emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants from refineries,…