By Bill Zeeble, KERA News
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Dallas, TX – Citizens and environmental groups concerned about possible air and water pollution from the Barnett Shale can speak out tonight in Arlington.
That's when up to several hundred people will gather to express concerns about the Texas Commission on Environment Quality and the Railroad Commission. Rita Beving, with Public citizen, says both face the Sunset Advisory Commission next month to see if they should change, or even continue to exist.
Beving: Our state has failed in many ways to respond to the public . That's why the EPA has stepped in to pull authority away from the TCEQ. Some of the people we've talked to have had such bad experiences that even some of their tap water will catch fire.
Beving expects many people will speak out about the TCEQ and the Railroad Commission. Both get reviewed once a decade by the state. North Texas lawmakers and a former TCEQ chair will also attend tonight's public hearing in Arlington.