As of Friday, the TCEQ gave preliminary approval of the permit citing waterways would “not be impaired” by the plant’s operations. …Read Full Article

Source: BING – TCEQ

We’re waiting to see what the EPA will do,” Craig Pritzlaff, director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s office of compliance and enforcement. Addressing the Permian Basin (more…)

The EPA sets the ambient standards and the TCEQ monitors them, he explained. When the prospect of redesignation was raised last summer, Donna Huff, TCEQ’s deputy director, air quality division, (more…)

Consolidated issued 68 boil-water notices in 2022, the highest number issued by a public water entity last year and has led the state in the number issued in March, according to TCEQ data. (more…)

On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents. …Read Full Article

Source: BING – TCEQ

Across the state, from the arid plains of West Texas to the Piney Woods along the Louisiana border, water and wastewater infrastructure is failing — if it exists at all. …Read Full Article (more…)

Last Thursday, residents and activists filed into a Deer Park auditorium to urge the Texas Commissioner on Environmental Quality not to renew an emissions permit for Intercontinental Terminals (more…)

Last Thursday, residents and activists filed into a Deer Park auditorium to urge the Texas Commissioner on Environmental Quality not to renew an emissions permit for Intercontinental Terminals (more…)

City officials say despite the perception, the public drinking water is safe to drink and bathe in, but some would argue it’s an issue that’s happening too often. …Read Full Article

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Helotes resident Randy Neumann speaks during a Tuesday public hearing held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about plans for a wastewater treatment plant to … …Read Full (more…)