| TTLA STATEWIDE PAC DRIVES: All IN TO WIN | In order to WIN in 2018, we need EVERY TTLA member to support the TTLA PAC. So, we are holding ALL IN TO WIN PAC Fundraising Statewide Drives. We’ll be calling every TTLA member to ask them to contribute at least $7 a month to the PAC. Please join us to get every TTLA member engaged in our political efforts. Volunteers are the key to our success, and all you have to do is choose a day, RSVP and then SHOW UP. We will give you all the tools you need to be successful. Click on the headline to RSVP!
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| The Brief for April 17 |  | In today’s Brief: How Republicans diminished the political clout of Hispanic voters, school administrators called Texas' special education overhaul an unfunded mandate, and the state’s health commission botched another contract.
Cassi Pollock , Texas Tribune 04/17/2018    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Houston-Area Toxic Waste Site Removed from Priority List | | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that the San Jacinto Waste Pits are no longer on its "Emphasis List" of Superfund sites following a $115 million agreement to remove toxic sludge from the site. The announcement comes a week after the EPA reached a much-anticipated agreement to clean up the San Jacinto Waste Pits =E2=80=94 one of the most hazardous of Houston’s many EPA Superfund sites =E2=80=94 with the two companies deemed responsible for the waste. Local environmental prosecutors and activist groups who have pushed for removal of the waste cheered the deal.
KIAH COLLIER, Texas Tribune 04/17/2018 | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Jury Awards $33.1M to Burned Plywood Worker | | A state district court jury in Harris County awarded $33.1 million to a worker who was badly burned in an explosion at a Georgia-Pacific plywood plant in Corrigan in Polk County. Ralph A. Figgs, a plant supervisor, survived the blast and fire that killed two of his co-workers in 2014.
L.M.Sixel, Houston Chronicle 04/17/2018 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Midlothian Woman's Stand Against Cement Co. Still Pays off in Cleaner Air, Money for Kids | | After a dozen years and more than $2.3 million, a landmark Texas air pollution settlement has come to a close. The Sue Pope Pollution Reduction Fund was zeroed out with the donation Monday of about $75,000 to the Midlothian school district's special needs programs. The money =E2=80=94 interest left over from the original $2.25 million =E2=80=94 was part of a 2006 settlement negotiated among the Holcim Midlothian cement plant, Environmental Protection Agency and nonprofit Downwinders at Risk. In that deal, the environmental group agreed to stop fighting Holcim's application to expand cement production. And Holcim agreed to upgrade equipment that would reduce emissions and also provide $2.25 million in funding for projects to reduce smog-forming nitrogen oxide.
Jeff Moiser, The Dallas Morning News 04/17/2018 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Takata Airbag Recalls Continue Growing in Newer-Model Cars | | There's been a big push to recall and replace what's been referred to as "alpha" inflators, the vehicles posing the highest risk to drivers -- those in 2001-2003 Hondas and Acuras -- like the ones Serena and Huma drove. But the Takata inflators can be found in thousands of vehicles still on the road, including some 2014, '15, '16 and even '17 models.
Tera Roberson, Click2Houston 04/17/2018 | | Read Article: Click2Houston |
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