“At this time no shelter-in-place has been issued and TCEQ staff are integrated into the onsite incident command,” the statement read. Valero said in a news release that community air monitoring (more…)

The TCEQ sunset bill emerged from a review conducted by the Sunset Advisory Commission on the agency’s effectiveness. TCEQ is responsible for permitting and monitoring the emission, discharge (more…)

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recommends residents susceptible to particle pollution consider reducing their activity levels or shortening the amount of time spent (more…)

This comes six months after a fire at the Valero East facility, which is three miles away, where 10 fugitive gas emissions were released, which are gases they are not allowed to emit, according (more…)

Crews are responding to a fire within the 290,000 barrel-per-day Valero Energy Corp’s Corpus Christi West refinery in Texas, according to a community alert on Wednesday. …Read Full Article (more…)

The TCEQ sunset bill emerged from a review conducted by the Sunset Advisory Commission on the agency’s effectiveness. …Read Full Article

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The bill would require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to focus enforcement and increase penalties on repeat violators and increase public outreach. …Read Full Article

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The bill would require the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to focus enforcement and increase penalties on repeat violators and increase public outreach. Still, environmental advocates (more…)

Gov. Greg Abbott has not said whether he supports this legislation. The TCEQ sunset bill emerged from a review conducted by the Sunset Advisory Commission on the agency’s effectiveness. TCEQ (more…)

Marathon Petroleum officials say they are still monitoring the air quality in the Texas City area after Monday’s fire, in which we now know what was burning. According to Marathon Petroleum (more…)