TRC Commissioner Williams seeks U.S. Senate Seat

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams desperately desires Hutchinson’s Senate Seat. Find out what he stands for and what he wants for Texas from his speech at the CPAC Convention,

Michael Williams at CPAC Convention:

• Does not believe in climate change
• George W. Bush among his close personal friends
• Less taxation
• Less regulation
• more drilling

In other words, more of the same:

• Texas made national news because we have the most drilling and worst regulation.
• Texas has NO regulation specific to hydraulic fracturing
• In D-FW, ‘sobering’ asthma numbers
• As of two years ago, Texas was the top carbon polluter in the country. (Source: USA Today)
• Texas is the worst air polluter in the nation. (SOURCE: Congressional Quarterly’s State Fact Finder 2007)
• Texas releases more volatile organic compounds into the air than any other state in the country. (SOURCE: ScoreCard.org )
• Texas releases more toxic chemicals into water than any other state in the nation. (SOURCE: ScoreCard.org)
• Texas ranks fifth in the nation in terms of toxic chemicals released into the air. (SOURCE: ScoreCard.org)
• Texas releases more cancer-causing carcinogens into the air than any other state in the U.S. (SOURCE: ScoreCard.org)
• Texas ranks seventh out of the fifty states in terms of the number of cancer-causing carcinogens released into water. (SOURCE: ScoreCard.org)
• Texas ranks second among the fifty states in the amount of hazardous waste generated and first in carbon dioxide emissions. (SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [LINK])