This news summary covers a range of local San Antonio stories, including developments in a capital murder trial, reports on airport wait times, the city's decision regarding César Chavez Day, and updates on infrastructure projects.
Court room tension continues on third day of Christopher Preciado capital murder trialVideo shows driver rescuing child found wandering along busy South Side road‘Very heartbreaking’: Witness describes West Side crash that killed 12-year-old boyCity of San Antonio will not observe César Chavez Day on March 31, will move city holiday to Good FridaySA airport reports short TSA wait lines as shutdown-driven callouts delay travel in other US cities Read full article: SA airport reports short TSA wait lines as shutdown-driven callouts delay travel in other US cities FILE - The seal of the Dept of Justice is shown on the podium, Aug.
1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. Read full article: DOJ: Man arrested in San Antonio indicted, accused of kidnapping and harboring immigrantsLoop 1604, Blanco Road intersection to close this weekend for work on diverging diamond interchangeCity of San Antonio will not observe César Chavez Day on March 31, will move city holiday to Good Friday Read full article: City of San Antonio will not observe César Chavez Day on March 31, will move city holiday to Good FridayODESSA — The Texas Railroad Commission spent two years working to secure the authority to issue the permits energy companies need to inject and store carbon dioxide underground, a power previously held by the federal government.Both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations have approved generous tax incentives to energy companies to encourage carbon capture. While the effectiveness of the practice and benefits to the environment have been debated for years, the oil and gas industry has embraced it as a climate-friendly solution to pollution driven by industrial-scale fossil fuel production. But proponents of carbon capture technology argued that the federal government took too long to approve permits. The transfer of permitting to Texas isn’t likely to mean a rush of new projects, experts said, mainly because there hasn’t been a recent significant expansion of government incentives for direct air capture projects that trap carbon dioxide emissions, incinerate them and inject them deep underground.Class VI authorizes companies to capture, inject and permanently store carbon dioxide underground. Carbon capture is a technology designed decades ago to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from large industrial sources such as power plants, steel manufacturing, cement production, and other industrial facilities that emit greenhouse gases. The primary intent of the technology is to prevent carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. Through direct air capture, which is a specialized and expensive practice, CO2 is separated from other gases through a chemical process. It is then compressed and transported, usually through pipelines, to a storage location, then injected into deep underground rock formations where it can be permanently stored.Unless a state applies to take over, only federal regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency can issue Class VI permits. The Railroad Commission applied in December 2022 and was approved by the EPA in October, making Texas the sixth state to be granted that authority, known as primacy. “In order to be granted primacy, a state program must meet federal requirements for the protection of underground sources of drinking water. The RRC has a long history of regulating various classes of injection wells, and is committed to strong oversight while protecting underground sources of drinking water,” a spokesperson for the commission said in a statement.To be granted permitting authority, states must prove they can enforce the federal Safe Drinking Water Act while making filing paperwork easier for companies. The assumption is that Texas companies will be more familiar with the state commission’s processes. The Railroad Commission has staffed its Class VI office with four technical reviewers, three engineering specialists and a geoscientist. To fund the newly created office, the commission is using a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant in addition to state funds. The state charges companies a $50,000 application fee, which goes toward the commission’s budget — amending an existing permit costs $25,000. And until the facility is closed, operators must pay an annual fee of $50,000 for each year they do not inject.The commission has received 18 applications, the earliest one filed in 2022 by Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, which the commission approved in tandem with the EPA in October. The facility, which Oxy plans to build about 20 miles southwest of Odessa, is designed to store up to 8.5 million metric tons of carbon over 12 years.Shuttle driver rescues toddler from a busy roadSan Antonio César Chávez march organizers, foundation disbands amid sexual abuse allegations2026 César E. Chávez March for Justice cancelledPossible relief for a northeast side dangerous intersection.Blind man says security pushed him down stairs, beat him in parking lot of North Side barJury selection began on Monday in the case of Christopher PreciadoSchertz searches for answers to frequent railroad crossing crashesSarah Spivey has your weather Authority Forecast
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