Texas environmental agency keeps issuing data center permits despite Abbott's pause
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Public Citizen and FracTracker Alliance say Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) records show the agency kept working on more than a dozen data center permits after Governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause on September 21.
The groups say twelve of the 14 applications for gas plants and generators were filed in October, and TCEQ used an expedited review process for eight of them.
Abbott's office says no permits have been approved. FracTracker's Sam Law says stormwater permits filed through a notice of intent let projects continue building.
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AIPublic Citizen and FracTracker Alliance say TCEQ records show it kept working on more than a dozen data center permits after Governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause on September 21. Abbott's office says no permits have been approved, but FracTracker's Sam Law says stormwater permits filed through a notice of intent let projects continue building.
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