Texas Campaign for the Environment: Victories

Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) has a strong history of victories. Here are just some of the highlights:

Key Accomplishments

• Gathering public support for Dallas and Arlington to adopt a curbside recycling program. 1991-2000

• Helping to stop the permitting of a new landfill on Lake Arlington, the drinking water source for area residents. 1991-2000

• Mobilizing Weatherford neighbors control a landfill expansion. 2005

• Stopping the expansion and privatization of Austin's old landfill. 2005

• Closing the Grandfather Loophole in the Texas Clean Air Act and requiring modern pollution controls on old plants. 1991-2000

• Bringing cleaner burning gasoline to the Greater Austin area 2001 and cleaning up diesel emissions of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Austin Independent School District. 2002

• Convincing the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board to continue buying cleaner-burning natural gas buses. 1991-2000

• Advocating for large new wind power plants in West Texas. 1991-2000

• Leading effort to convince Dell to embrace producer takeback recycling and stop using prison labor for recycling. 2004

• Pressuring Apple on producer takeback andit has started with recycling iPods at its retail stores. 2005

• Organizing opposition to the marketing of disposable DVDs. 2004

• Stopping the weakening of key trash standards for trash facilities Link: 2004 and working to strengthen the public's right to know about new or expanding trash dumps and stronger standards now. landfills: statewide rules