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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

North Texas Conservation Association Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging McKinney Airport Expansion

  

McKinney, TX — May 27th, 2025. Yesterday, the North Texas Conservation Association (NTCA) filed a petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (North Texas Conservation Ass’n v. Texas Dep’t of Transp., Case No. 25-1135) challenging the Environmental Assessment (EA) related to the planned expansion of McKinney National Airport.


The petition contends that the EA—approved by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), McKinney Mayor George Fuller, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)—fails to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NTCA is asking the Court to vacate the FAA’s Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and the accompanying Record of Decision (ROD), and to remand the EA back to TXDOT for a thorough and legally compliant environmental review.


NTCA’s President, Dr. Paul Chabot, stated, “We believe the environmental assessment done on the McKinney airport expansion is seriously flawed. It fails to fully and adequately consider environmental impacts in the vicinity of the airport, such as the Heard Museum and residential areas in McKinney and Fairview. The people of North Texas deserve better.” 


NTCA’s General Counsel, Steven E. Ross, says, “The McKinney City Council seems to have been more interested in meeting the timeline set by some unnamed commercial airlines than listening to voters.”


NTCA, a nonprofit corporation that has applied for 501(c)(3) status, is dedicated to protecting the region’s environment, wildlife habitats, and rural character.


To engage with the community and provide further information, NTCA will host two upcoming town hall meetings:

  • June      11, 2025 – Fairview, TX
  • June      19, 2025 – McKinney, TX


Registration and additional details are available at: ntconservation.org. A copy of the filed petition can also be found on this website. 


Media Contact: Email: info@ntconservation.org

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO ABOVE MEDIA AVISORY

In response to NTCA’s request for federal court review of the deeply flawed Environmental Assessment (EA) conducted for the McKinney airport expansion, the city, led by outgoing Mayor George Fuller, immediately responded with mudslinging and personal attacks. That is unfortunate and not helpful. The people of North Texas deserve better.


- Some have claimed that NCTA’s request for judicial review is a political stunt. That is incorrect. NTCA does not support or oppose any of the candidates in the current McKinney runoff election. The voters of McKinney should make their own choices in the runoff. NTCA’s case will likely remain pending long after McKinney’s runoff election is over.


- The timing of NTCA’s petition for review was based entirely on the timing of the issuance of the final environmental assessment regarding the airport expansion. TxDot issued a first “final” EA on March 27, 2025, and a corrected final EA on April 21, 2025. Federal law gives interested parties up to 60 days to file a petition seeking judicial review of an EA. NTCA timely filed its petition for review on May 26, 2025, within the 60-day window. If the city and TxDOT had finalized the EA sooner, NTCA would have filed sooner.


- The City of McKinney’s irresponsible comments, through its Mayor George Fuller, try to paint the request for judicial review as a political stunt driven by Dr. Paul Chabot.  That is also incorrect. Actually, it was NTCA’s General Counsel, Steven Ross, who posed the idea for NTCA to leading figures from McKinney and Fairview.  These leaders joined together to form NTCA. NTCA has broad support from North Texas.

 

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