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SUMMARY:Environmental Perspectives-Tx Legislative sessions
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Perspectives on the Last and Next Texas Legislati
 ve Sessions Join by Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81454647993 630PM socia
 l time and equipment check 7PM presentation Rita Beving of Public Citizen
  will recap some of the major environmental legislation enacted — and not
  —- during the 88th Texas Legislature with an eye toward what may be trend
 ing in the next session in 2025. She has a 25-year history of advocating o
 n environmental issues both professionally and as a volunteer with the Sie
 rra Club and Clean Water Fund. Since 2013 she has worked with the national
  nonprofit Public Citizen as a registered lobbyist on a variety of issues.
    For several years Rita served alongside local officials on the North Ce
 ntral Texas Council of Governments' Clean Air Steering Committee to help r
 educe ozone as part of the State Implementation Plan. Statewide she has ba
 ttled the Keystone XL and TransPecos pipelines\, land farms\, landfills\,
  cement kilns\, and concrete batch plants. She worked with former Dallas M
 ayor Laura Miller and other nonprofits to defeat the permitting of more th
 an a dozen coal plants. She was vice chair of the task force that helped d
 evelop Dallas' Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan\, and s
 he currently serves as a technical air advisor for the city's environmenta
 l commission.   She is a graduate of Iowa State University and lives in th
 e Dallas area with her husband\, attorney David Griggs
URL:http://arlington.bubblelife.com/community/arlington_calendar/library/35
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