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Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26122023/state-of-denial-texas-polluters-evade-federal-law/</a>Well that's a fuckin' whirlwind of a story. Between this article, and the previous five in the six-part series ("State of Denial"), an (in my opinion) impenetrable case is made that TCEQ is a sham body, riddled with political and private-sector conflicts of interest that make it fundamentally unsuitable as an enforcement vehicle for federal environmental protection laws. It is a prototypical example of regulatory capture.And the (federal) EPA's refusal to act in the face of that reality makes them complicit, if not downright duplicitous. As far as I'm concerned, the EPA is treating Texas as a Sacrifice Zone in order to allow out-of-state interests to continue accruing short-term returns, at the expense of the long-term health and well-being of Texans.<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TCEQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TCEQ</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#texas</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/RegulatoryCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegulatoryCapture</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/environmentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmentalism</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/SacrificeZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SacrificeZone</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ICN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICN</a>

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/brazos-river-development-pollution-drifting-toward-disaster/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/brazos-river-development-pollution-drifting-toward-disaster/</a>>What’s more, Dow-Freeport is operating with a wastewater permit that expired in 2019 but has been “administratively continued” by TCEQ, according to an agency spokesperson. That means Dow is allowed to follow outdated rules while a TCEQ review of the facility’s new draft permit drags on. > >“It is concerning that this is coming up on five years, which is, frankly, the length of time a new permit would have been,” said Josh Kratka, a senior staff attorney at the National Environmental Law Center. While Kratka doesn’t know what’s transpiring between Dow and TCEQ specifically, he explained that many companies try to convince regulators that they can’t reasonably comply with pollution limits in order to delay enforcement. “Rather than really crack down, enforcing a solution quickly, the regulators just give them more time,” he said. This article was written in 2023. So far as I can tell, the permit in question, WQ0000007000, was originally granted in 1978. Its latest "approval date" is from 2016, and its latest "expiration date" is... STILL 2019. And yet the permit is still "active" rather than expired.You can check at: <a href="https://www6.tceq.texas.gov/wqpaq/index.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www6.tceq.texas.gov/wqpaq/index.cfm</a>Put in "WQ0000007000" for the State Permit No., click Add, then click Search.(Sidenote: still using ColdFusion? In 2025? Damn).Ouch.<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TexasObserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TexasObserver</a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TexasObserver</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/BrazosRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrazosRiver</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Brazos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brazos</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Brazoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brazoria</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TCEQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TCEQ</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/FreePort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePort</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CleanWaterAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleanWaterAct</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CleanWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleanWater</a>

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