The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued a boil water notice for residents of La Coste following a well failure that resulted in a city-wide water outage.

While residents smelled rotten eggs, the state’s environmental agency said it has not detected any air pollution.

Friday, Oct. 11, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Former employees say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality gutted the unit soon after the fracking boom swept the state oil industry. The operation never returned to what it was before.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

A federal agency has paused some of SpaceX's plans amid concerns over the environment.

A damaged sewer main prompted the spill, which dumped an estimated 50,000 gallons of domestic wastewater, potentially affecting the nearby Zarzamora Creek, according to a notice from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

The town’s troubles started in 2018, when its water tested positive for the dangerous E.coli bacteria.

Thursday, Aug. 8, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.ity.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is set to hear the request for a waste water treatment plant permit that's been causing concerns among property owners near Grey Forest and environmental groups.

The City of Natalia said that its water no longer requires boiling before use.

Many of the solutions are costly, putting them out of reach for small towns. But the region's most populous cities are getting innovative.

Thursday, June 13, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Citing community concerns about a planned cement plant in Grayson County, Patrick’s letter asks TCEQ to reject the permit and halt permit approvals statewide.

Public data from a network of state air monitors around the Houston Ship Channel is hard to interpret and is often inadequate, leaving Latino-majority neighborhoods like Cloverleaf unaware of whether the air they breathe is safe.

The boil water notice of the City of Lytle has been lifted, a city official said Tuesday.

Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Lavaca Bay instead. But it and other interested industrial plants are waiting for more water.

The City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System and more than 80 parties are joining the effort to stop the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from allowing wastewater to be dumped into a local creek.

The Mayor of San Antonio joins the effort to prevent treated wastewater from being dumped into Helotes Creek in North Bexar County.

Helotes and Grey Forest residents are asking for more voices to join their cause to stop the legal dumping of millions of gallons of treated wastewater just miles from the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.

Called “upset” events, companies are required to tell the state when they emit pollution above what their permits allow.

Neighbors held a meeting in November with state and city officials to discuss growing concerns about multiple fires at Monterrey Iron & Metal Recycling. Now, they're working to build a case.

A judge reversed a 2022 decision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that involved its controversial “one-mile rule” to deny hearing requests.

The City of Lytle on Wednesday lifted a boil water notice and advised residents that the water supply is safe to use and consume.

Nearly 60 drinking fountains in Bexar County schools tested over the EPA threshold on the first round of testing for lead. Of those, 49 were at SAISD schools.

Judges overturned a state air pollution permit that was issued last year, arguing that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally enabled Port Arthur LNG to avoid emissions control requirements.

Without public hearings, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is proposing to adopt its 17-year-old standard that scientists and public health officials say fails to account for cumulative air pollution.

Thursday, Sept. 28, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Monday, Sept. 18, and Tuesday, Sept. 19, have been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Tuesday, Sept. 12, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Thursday, August 17, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Thursday, August 17, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

It’s not found anywhere in state law or the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s rules, but for years the agency has denied citizens the ability to challenge air pollution permits because they live more than a mile away.

The federal agency has settled a lawsuit the Sierra Club brought over pollution from a coal-burning power plant. The agreement requires the EPA to weigh in on the state’s plan to improve air quality in Rusk and Panola counties.

Texas lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott passed more than 1,100 bills during the 88th Legislature, including laws that surround education, school safety, transportation, voting and crime.

The TCEQ has proposed changes to concrete batch plant permits including lowering production limits, reducing dust coming from plants and setting minimum distance requirements from nearby communities.

The lawsuit claims the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority with its plan to reduce ozone emissions that cross state lines.

Wednesday, June 7, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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 say the effort was too “modest” in its reach.

A fire broke out at a Deer Park Shell plant the day after a public hearing on renewing the permit for ITC, a nearby facility that caught fire in 2019, sparking a Texas Tribune/Public Health Watch investigation that documented failures in state and federal oversight.

The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance is working to protect the drinking water for the region, but the task is growing more difficult as Texas sees a boom in high-density development.

In Deer Park near Houston, memories of the massive ITC fire are still fresh. Residents told state environmental regulators they should reject the company’s permit renewal, but officials said the fire won’t be part of the decision.

The Texas Tribune analyzed previously unreported air monitoring data and records from the 2019 ITC chemical disaster near Houston and found that high benzene levels lingered in the air for two weeks after public health measures were lifted. Experts say more shelter-in-place advisories should have been issued.

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

The bill would impose fines when residents make more than three complaints to the state environmental agency in a year if they don’t result in enforcement action. Critics warn the bill would discourage people from reporting pollution.

A new report found that companies in Texas have had 21,000 unexpected pollution releases that emitted 400,000 tons of air pollution over six years, but only 1% of them prompted action by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to investigate allegations that the state is failing to enforce the Clean Water Act. Environmentalists say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s system of issuing permits has made it too easy for industries to contaminate rivers, lakes and estuaries.

Commenting on the EPA’s proposed new rule to reduce methane leaks nationally, environmentalists said Texas regulators are hesitant to address emissions of the climate super-pollutant.

Texas Water Utilities lifted the remaining precautionary boil water notices for more than 1,500 households northwest of San Antonio on Friday afternoon, ending a days-long challenge for people to get clean tap water.

Lead has been found in the drinking water of several San Antonio ISD campuses, according to district officials.

For more than 24 hours, nearly everyone in the nation’s fourth-most-populous city had been asked to boil water after a power outage at a water treatment plant Sunday.

Millions of Houston residents are expected to be under a boil water notice until Tuesday after a power outage at a water treatment plant. At least four school districts canceled Monday classes.

As the state’s environmental agency weighs new pollution limits on the plants, several lawmakers have filed bills that would put new restrictions on the facilities, which spew pollutants into mostly low-income neighborhoods.

The group that reviews the effectiveness of state agencies recommended several changes to how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality operates.

A local activist went before a judge, arguing for lower pollution limits on two new liquified natural gas facilities. The judge sided with him, but the state environmental agency sided with the companies.

Friday, Oct. 7, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The city’s health department found dioxins in soil samples along the fence line of a Union Pacific rail yard. Mayor Sylvester Turner said during the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival that plans to clean up the contamination should now include relocating residents.

The community of Derby has had to depend on donations of bottled water to cook, clean and go to the bathroom for the last month and a half.

Texas’ environmental regulators make it tricky for residents to track, or speak out against, industrial projects proposed near their homes. Advocates in Houston built a high-tech workaround.

Wednesday, Sept. 14, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Friday, Sept. 9, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Friday, Sept. 9, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The Texas coast is a hot spot for “nurdle” pollution, tiny plastic pellets created in the process of producing everyday products. But a plan to require proactive prevention of their release has been scrapped.

Dozens of Spring Branch residents attended a meeting hosted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) after bringing up concerns about the release of treated wastewater into a creek that feeds into Canyon Lake and the possible development of more than 700 homes.

The federal agency launched the inquiry after complaints from the Harris County Attorney and Lone Star Legal Aid about how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues permits to plants that predominantly impact communities of color.

The drought and heat are gripping South Texas and the lack of rain has led to questions about standing water in area lakes, rivers and popular swimming destinations.

Friday, May 26, has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Public Water Systems customers in the City of LaCoste are currently under a boil water notice due to reduced distribution system pressure and a water outage.

Friday has been declared an Ozone Action Day in San Antonio by The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Communities such as Laredo, where the vast majority of the residents are Latino and more than a quarter live in poverty, have been left in the dark for years by regulators who had evidence of the dangers posed by ethylene oxide but never told the public about them.Out of all the pollutants that the EPA regulates, ethylene oxide is the most toxic, contributing to the majority of the excess cancer risk created by industrial air pollutants in the United States, according to an unprecedented analysis of the agency’s most recent modeling data by ProPublica, in collaboration with The Texas Tribune. That risk is in addition to those Americans already face from other factors like genetics or lifestyle.

Thursday is being declared an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area.

Wednesday is being declared an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area.

Saturday is an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area.

Federal agencies that manage national parks said Texas overestimated the cost of new emission regulations and failed to address their concerns in its analysis.

Saturday is an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area.

Friday is an Ozone Action Day for the San Antonio area.

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District is alerting the public of the second Ozone Action Day of the year in the Alamo City.

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District is alerting the public of the first Ozone Action Day of the year in the Alamo City.

Sofia Ramirez attends the STEM Academy at Nimitz Middle School and won the ‘Take Care of Texas’ video contest. SAN ANTONIO – Out of more than 200 submitted entries across the state, a North East Independent School District middle schooler has won first place in a recent video contest. Sofia Ramirez, a sixth-grader who attends STEM Academy at Nimitz Middle School, won the ‘Take Care of Texas’ video contest sponsored by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The video is about the importance of taking care of our water supply. Ad“One of the most shocking things is the scientists have found weedkiller in drinking water,” Ramirez said.

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas’ environmental regulator on Friday barred most uses of the water at an oilfield camp converted into a holding center for immigrant teenagers, raising alarms about the safety of more than 400 youths detained there. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said running water at the Midland camp could be used only to flush toilets or wash clothes because officials aren't sure whether the water is safe. AdThe Midland camp did not have an active permit with TCEQ for a public water system, according to the agency’s online records. Texas Sen. Kel Seliger said Friday that water on site is drawn from a well that the company drilled without getting a TCEQ permit. Hopefully not oilfield pollutants, but they don’t know.”It's unclear whether TCEQ has tested the water or whether any hazardous chemicals have been found.

AdSince a peak of about 14.9 million Texans faced water disruptions on Friday, the state’s water situation has steadily improved. Ad“They told us to fill the bathtubs because they were going to cut the water,” Tribble said via phone on Tuesday. Another message from the building later informed them that some of the building’s pipes had burst. You just have a lot more to go through.”Brad Casebier, owner of Austin-based Radiant Plumbing, echoed the complexity of apartment buildings. The Texas Property Code does establish rules on how the repair process should be handled, but tenants must be up to date with rent.

A Boil Water Notice means residents should boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc). 1, located in Bandera, PWS#0100011Bexar CountySAWS has rescinded its boil water notice for all of San Antonio. **NO LONGER IN EFFECT** Monarch Utilities has issued a “Boil Water Notice” for customers in the Coolcrest water system , Public Water System ID No. Gillespie County**NO LONGER IN EFFECT** Monarch Utilities has issued a “Boil Water Notice” for customers in the Oakview water system, Public Water System ID No. **NO LONGER IN EFFECT** Monarch Utilities has issued a “Boil Water Notice” for customers in the Rocky Creek Subdivision water system, Public Water System ID No.

KENEDY, Texas – The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required residents in Kenedy to have residents boil water prior to drinking it after outages and water pressure fall below acceptable guidelines. According to a statement by the city, children, seniors and persons with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to harmful bacteria. “To ensure the destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking, and ice making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes,” the city said. “The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.”If you cannot boil your water, city officials say you may need to buy bottled water or get water from another “suitable source.”Public water system officials will notify customers when it is no longer necessary to boil the water. You can get the very latest forecast anytime by bookmarking our weather page and downloading the KSAT Weather Authority App - available for both Apple and Android devices.

Credit: Allie Goulding/The Texas TribuneTexas will soon begin a program to test drinking water in thousands of elementary schools and child care facilities across the state following an update to federal standards on lead and copper exposure. Now, the agency will be responsible for overseeing a plan to test tens of thousands of water systems that serve children throughout the state over the next three years. Lead usually enters drinking water through lead-based pipes or plumbing — which were used for decades before being banned in the 1980s. It’s a very complicated issue to address.”After the Flint water crisis gained national attention, at least 17 Texas school districts proactively tested drinking water for lead, according to data compiled by Environment Texas, an Austin-based nonprofit. Even among schools that voluntarily tested and corrected significant sources of lead exposure, many still have some level of lead in the water, said Luke Metzger, executive director of Environment Texas.

Texas lawmakers are pushing to require new standards on above-ground chemical storage tanks during the upcoming legislative session. These are the incidents that some Texas lawmakers have in mind as they push to require new standards on above-ground chemical storage tanks during the upcoming legislative session. And during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, flooding caused the explosions at Arkema’s chemical power plant and damaged storage tanks that leaked thousands of gallons of gasoline. Above-ground storage tanks are exempt from the rules. API did not respond to questions about whether its members would be open to new state regulations for above-ground tanks in Texas.

A group of Texas environmental groups say the federal Environmental Protection Agency looked the other way when Texas didn’t require tough-enough rules on air pollution for several refineries, gas plants and chemical plants. The Environmental Integrity Project, along with other Texas environmental groups, filed a lawsuit against EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler on Monday after he did not respond to a petition by the groups to correct what they say is a violation of federal law in Texas. Environmental groups are concerned about eight air pollution permits issued to facilities in Texas including, for example, a Phillips 66 refinery in north Texas. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issues permits for air pollution from equipment at large industrial facilities, such as refineries and chemical plants, that should adhere to the Clean Air Act. The Environmental Integrity Project filed a similar suit over Texas permits in 2017 — Clark-Leach said the problem is “pervasive” throughout Texas.

They soon learned it could be a concrete batch plant to service the construction of Oak Hill Parkway, a Texas Department of Transportation plan to widen Highway 290. “It just seems like we’re in this Bermuda Triangle of responsibility and accountability,” said Watson, 64, a retired head of a birdwatching tour business turned anti-concrete batch plant activist. “Because we’re not in the city, the city defers to the county on transportation. It’s like the Wild West.”Watson’s neighborhood faces an increasingly familiar problem for rural and urban homeowners alike across Texas. The number of air permit applications for concrete batch plants in Texas has increased 25% from 2014 to 2019, according to data provided by the TCEQ.

Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas TribuneHOUSTON – Texas officials on Tuesday said the state’s environmental agency has added greater capacity to quickly monitor pollution across the state during storms and other disaster events, such as chemical fires. Toby Baker, the executive director of the TCEQ, said the agency’s effort to add mobile air monitoring capacity was in motion before the EPA OIG report, but acknowledged that Hurricane Harvey was a turning point for environmental regulators. “We learned some lessons with Hurricane Harvey,” Baker said. Tuesday’s announcement was held in Houston’s Manchester neighborhood at Hartman Park, next to Valero’s Houston Refinery, where a storage tank notoriously collapsed during Hurricane Harvey — one of the unmonitored pollution events during the storm. The extent of the emissions released by chemical plants, refineries and other industrial operators along the Gulf Coast during and after Hurricane Harvey is unknown due to the lag in air monitoring, according to the EPA report.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – A boil-water notice was lifted Tuesday from the drinking-water system of a Houston-area city where water tainted with a deadly, microscopic parasite was blamed for the death of a 6-year-old boy. In a statement, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said Lake Jackson officials lifted the notice Tuesday after disinfectant levels in the drinking water were documented to be above the state requirements. The boil-water notice was issued late last month after several days of flushing of the Brazosport Water Authority's water delivery system. It lifted that warning the next day for all communities but Lake Jackson, where the authority’s water treatment plant is situated. The ban was lifted in Lake Jackson on Sept. 27 but replaced with the boil-water notice.

TEXAS – Texas Gov. Abbott, with other state and local officials, spoke from Lake Jackson, where the naegleria fowleri microbe was found. Officials have determined the amoeba was only found in Lake Jackson water, but the process to fix it will take 60 days. Officials will increase the amount of chlorine in the water system to kill all remnants of the virus. Crews will also thoroughly inspect the water system to see if unfiltered water is making its way into the water system.

Mundo said Lake Jackson residents are still urged to boil their tap water before using it. The city's water utility is trying to purge its system of any “old water” so the system can be disinfected and replaced with fresh water. The advisory was finally lifted for Lake Jackson, but the TCEQ has advised its more than 27,000 residents to boil any tap water before using. It usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose. In very rare instances, naegleria infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources (such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water or heated and contaminated tap water) enters the nose.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – Environmental officials in Texas have lifted a warning for a final Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe, but with a warning that the water should be boiled before being consumed. Earlier this month, 6-year-old Josh McIntyre died after contracting the microbe, naegleria fowleri. TCEQ said it is working with city officials to flush and disinfect the water system. According to the CDC website, the first deaths from naegleria fowleri found in tap water from treated U.S. public drinking water systems occurred in southern Louisiana in 2011 and 2013. The microbe also was found in 2003 in an untreated geothermal well-supplied drinking water system in Arizona, as well as in disinfected public drinking water supplies in Australia in the 1970s and ’80s and in 2008 in Pakistan.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe. The authority initially warned eight communities not to use tap water for any reason except to flush toilets, but on Saturday it lifted that warning for all communities but Lake Jackson. The advisory will remain in place until the authority's water system has been thoroughly flushed and tests on water samples show the system's water is again safe to use. The authority said in a statement that it was unclear how long it would be before the tap water was again safe. The contamination of U.S. treated public water systems by the microbe is rare but not unheard of.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe. The authority initially warned eight communities not to use tap water for any reason except to flush toilets, but on Saturday it lifted that warning for all communities but Lake Jackson. The advisory will remain in place until the authority's water system has been thoroughly flushed and tests on water samples show the system's water is again safe to use. The authority said in a statement that it was unclear how long it would be before the tap water was again safe. The contamination of U.S. treated public water systems by the microbe is rare but not unheard of.

REUTERS/Callaghan O'HareHere's what you need to know this weekend:Texas environmental agency grants oil and chemical companies scores of exemptions during coronavirusThe Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has exempted oil and chemical companies from environmental monitoring and inspection rules more than 100 times since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the state, the Houston Chronicle reports. Most of the companies that were exempted said they were limiting employees and contractors to coronavirus exposure, the paper reported. Voting by mail: Texas' top Republican officials call absentee voting a recipe for fraud and are fighting efforts to expand it during the coronavirus pandemic. But the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general Texas' top Republican officials call absentee voting a recipe for fraud and are fighting efforts to expand it during the coronavirus pandemic. The state reported 1,230 more cases of the new coronavirus Friday, bringing the total number of known cases to 61,006.

SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s note: This story is part of a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT. Comal County residents are suing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop the construction of a quarry they say will pollute the air with a lung-damaging contaminate, according to the San Antonio Business Journal. Stop 3009 Vulcan Quarry and Friends of Dry Comal Creek filed a lawsuit in Travis County court on Monday to overturn TCEQ's permit for a Vulcan Materials Co. rock-crushing facility. The facility will be a piece of a proposed limestone quarry, which Vulcan plans to place on a 1,500 acre site in the Hill Country between New Braunfels and Bulverde. Read the full story in the San Antonio Business Journal.