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FEDERAL COURT DISMISSES DUMP DEVELOPER’S LAWSUIT AGAINST CITY OF LAREDO
LAREDO – The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has officially dismissed the lawsuit brought by dump developer Rancho Viejo Waste Management against the City of Laredo stemming from the City Council’s May 16, 2016 resolution to oppose the Pescadito Environmental Resource Center (“the dump”). Once again, Rancho Viejo was flatly…
Read MoreDUMP LOBBYIST DISCIPLINED BY TEXAS ETHICS COMMISSION; RECEIVES “SLAP ON THE WRIST.”
Despite the efforts of thousands of concerned citizens and glaring deficiencies, someone at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality declared the application for the proposed Pescadito dump technically complete and directly referred the application to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) for a contested case hearing without allowing the TCEQ Commissioners to rule on…
Read MoreDUMP DEVELOPER ADMITS HE LIED ABOUT BRINGING COAL ASH TO LAREDO!
On May 7, CY Benavides made a two-hour appearance on a local Facebook Live show, telling lie after lie about his proposed Pescadito toxic dump. He said almost no coal ash is sent to landfills, but admitted he’d take it and other toxic wastes. He said his dump would only take the same type of…
Read MoreAustin Lobbyist attacks Laredo!
At the May 1 public meeting at TAMIU, an Austin lobbyist attacked one of Laredo’s elected representatives. In the first few minutes of the TCEQ meeting, Glenn Shankle, an Austin-based lobbyist for the Pescadito toxic waste landfill, launched shocking, unprovoked and personal attacks on State Senator Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo). Lobbyist Shankle implied that state legislators…
Read MoreTexans blast TCEQ staff for advancing floodplain landfill for foreign and out-of-state toxic waste
Neighbors, officials ask elected and TCEQ leaders to kill floodplain landfill before it’s too late SOUTH TEXAS – Late one recent Friday afternoon, the staff of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) quietly granted preliminary approval of a proposed landfill for Mexican and out-of-state waste to be developed in a Texas floodplain just miles…
Read MoreSetbacks mount for Pescadito landfill project
By Taryn T. Walters LAREDO MORNING TIMES Published June 18, 2017 While a local family proposing the creation of a landfill and recycling facility in Webb County received some setbacks in the past several months, Carlos “C.Y.” Benavides III says that won’t deter from their determination to move forward with the project. In recent months,…
Read MoreDump developer responds to TCEQ by bullying County employee
In October, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a Notice of Deficiency to Rancho Viejo Waste Management, shutting down the permitting process for their Pescadito toxic dump. At that time, the dump developers were given 30 days to address the deficiencies and correct them before the process could move forward. How did the dump…
Read MoreTCEQ Issues Notice of Deficiency to Rancho Viejo Waste Management; Gives developer 30 days to fix its permit.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued a Notice of Deficiency (NOD) to Rancho Viejo Waste Management regarding numerous items in its permit application for the proposed Pescadito dump. Most notable among these deficiencies is the absence of all the applicable permits and approvals required by State Law. This information was brought to the…
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