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81st Legislature Status

With two weeks left of the 81st Legislative Session, we need to do all that we can to promote the bills that managed to make it out of committee! Here’s a list of bills that we’re still watching: SB 1414 Williams – Quarry Registration and Inspection Requires registration of a quarry operation with the TCEQ prior to beginning extraction activities, and annual renewal of registration as extraction activities continue. TCEQ will annually conduct a physical survey of the state to identify all quarry operations in Texas and ensure that each operation is registered. Additionally, TCEQ will inspect each quarry operation for

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Noche Verde May 14: Benefit for GEAA, BuildSA Green, USGBC & Green Spaces Alliance

Don’t miss your chance to party and shop to benefit your favorite green causes! Big Grass Bamboo is throwing a fundraiser for us on Thursday, May 14th. They will also donate 10% of all sales made between Thursday, May 14th and Sunday the 17th to us, so you can buy a beautiful rain barrel to save water and support GEAA! Check out the online invitation for more details! Hope to see you there… GEAA Staff

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Hays County Greenprint Stakeholder Meeting: Monday, June 1st

Please save the date for the next Hays County Greenprint Stakeholder meeting: Monday, June 1st 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dripping Springs ISD Central Administration Building Boardroom 510 West Mercer St, Dripping Springs Light refreshments will be served At this final Greenprint Stakeholder meeting, we will finalize the overall conservation priority maps, discuss conservation funding opportunities, and brainstorm next steps for communities to use these maps and other strategies related to parks/open space that were raised at our first two meetings. Your attendance is critical to make sure that the “overlap” map, which will serve as the primary opportunity map for

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Call for Action: U.S. Surface Transportation Act

In the next few weeks, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider reauthorizing the Surface Transportation Act. We need your help to tell Congress to use this opportunity to reduce stormwater runoff pollution from the nation’s 985,139 miles of federal highway. These roads and highways, built with federal taxpayer dollars, have an enormous negative impact on water quality throughout the nation. Stormwater runoff carried from these roads impairs nearby lakes, streams, and rivers by dumping high volume, high velocity flows into waterways, which erodes streambanks and fills them with deicing agents, toxic metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, bacteria, and sediment. Before

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S.B. 2222: Worthy of Our Support

Time is getting short to move important legislation onto the floor. Please take a minute to call or email your Representatives and Senators about S.B. 2222. As you may know, intense development is increasingly impinging upon the critical military mission at Camp Bullis in northern Bexar County. As land surrounding Camp Bullis is developed, endangered Golden Cheeked Warblers are relocating to the base, thus limiting the land available to the military to conduct training. It goes without saying that the Army contributes immensely to the local ecnomony, but their presence has meant good stewardship of several thousand acres over the Edwards

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Check Out SA Mayoral Candidates’ Stands On Water

City of San Antonio Mayoral candidates, Castro, Cibrian and DeBerry-Meija discuss water issues at the Environmental Candidates Forum held at the Little Carver Theater on April 17th. Videos are used with permission by Greg Pasztor. Clip 1: The Aquifer Carrying Capacity Clip 2: Aquifer Development on the Recharge Zone Clip 3: Aquifer Impervious Cover Limits

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Joe Straus Elected Speaker

AUSTIN – Texas legislators unanimously elected Rep. Joe Straus III speaker of the state House Tuesday, making Straus the first San Antonio leader of the

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