Victory (for now, at least) at the Texas Legislature! Please keep this win in place! More calls and emails are needed - many thanks!

Update and action alert from Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition, dated May 6th at 3:43am ET:

Hi Everyone, Yay! Thanks to your hard work we had a massive victory at the Capitol today on the bad radioactive waste bill, HB 2692 by Landgraf! This is amazing... and the scale of the battle is unprecedented. 
In the process, many Legislators have learned a lot about the risks of bringing radioactive waste here, including safety, security, environmental and financial risks.
We won on a point-of-order written by Rep. Harold Dutton and offered by Speaker Tom Craddick. The bill analysis was found to be wrong, especially in describing the curie limits. It failed to accurately reflect what's in the bill. You can read the original bill analysis here. Unfortunately, we'll have to work to keep this victory in place... 
Rep. Landgraf gets a chance to correct the bill analysis. The bill has been recommitted (sent back) to the Environmental Reg. committee. 
This committees will likely meet ASAP and only have to post notice two hours ahead of time. We won't get to speak in these committee meetings.

TAKE ACTION to KEEP THIS VICTORY IN PLACE! Please call or email these House members and ask them to do vote NO on HB 2692! Those highlighted in yellow deserve thanks for previously voting NO on this bill. Talking points follow the contact information for Legislators.  Amendments cannot improve this seriously flawed bill.Environmental groups remain solidly opposed and oil companies are in alignment with this position. 

Environmental Regulation Committee members to call
Penny	Morales Shaw	penny.moralesshaw@house.texas.gov	512-463-0620
Geanie	Morrison	geanie.morrison@house.texas.gov	512-463-0456
Jay	Dean	jay.dean@house.texas.gov	512-463-0750
Kyle	Kacal	kyle.kacal@house.texas.gov	512-463-0412
John	Kuempel	john.kuempel@house.texas.gov	512-463-0602
Ron	Reynolds	ron.reynolds@house.texas.gov	512-463-0494
Vikki	Goodwin	vikki.goodwin@house.texas.gov	512-463-0652
Calendars Committee Members to call:
Dustin	Burrows	dustin.burrows@house.texas.gov	512-463-0542
Joseph	Moody	joe.moody@house.texas.gov	512-463-0728
Ben	Leman	ben.leman@house.texas.gov	512-463-0600
Cody	Harris	cody.harris@house.texas.gov	512-463-0730
Toni	Rose	toni.rose@house.texas.gov	512-463-0664
Ana	Hernandez	ana.hernandez@house.texas.gov	512-463-0614
Tom	Craddick	tom.craddick@house.texas.gov	512-463-0500
Cole	Hefner	cole.hefner@house.texas.gov	512-463-0271
Jared	Patterson	jared.patterson@house.texas.gov	512-463-0694
Shelby	Slawson	shelby.slawson@house.texas.gov	512-463-0628
James	Talarico	james.talarico@house.texas.gov	512-463-0607

• ·     This bill: Fails to stop deadly high-level radioactive waste from coming to Texas due to loopholes and federal preemption. It’s a nuclear Trojan horse.

• ·     Massive Giveaways: Governor Abbott vetoed these massive financial giveaways to Waste Control Specialists (WCS) last session and vowed to protect Texas from high-level radioactive waste.

• ·     Texas could lose over a billion dollars in surcharges on WCS’ low-level radioactive waste imports, revenues that we’ll need to clean up clean up contamination or accidents later. Surcharges from out-of-state companies benefit the Texas economy and should remain in place.
  

·    Safety regulations would be shredded and an antitrust requirement would be removed. 

Many thanks!  Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition, 512-797-8481