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| SOUTH PADRE ISLAND – Environment Texas along with Surfrider Foundation, elected officials, and spring breakers called on Congress to protect Texas beaches by passing the Clean Water Restoration Act. The message comes during “Texas Week,” a time when Spring Break vacation allows between 60,000 to 75,000 students to venture to South Padre Island to enjoy the white sand beaches and the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| AUSTIN - Toxic chemicals used in natural gas drilling could pose a threat to water quality near Texas’ 95,814 gas wells according to a report released today by Environment Texas. The report, Toxic Chemicals on Tap: How Gas Drilling Threatens Drinking Water, details how the chemicals in gas drilling could endanger clean water in Texas. | |
| AUSTIN - Industrial facilities dumped 13 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Texas’ waterways in 2007, according to a report released today by Environment Texas: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. The information detailed in this report was compiled from the Environmental Protection Agency’s database on toxic release inventories. | |
| AUSTIN – With central Texas suffering from one of the worst droughts in a century, lake levels at Lake Travis and spring flows at Barton Springs have fallen to alarming levels, causing many Texans to rethink their 4th of July weekend plans. A group of environmental advocates and small business owners called on the Austin City Council to protect Lake Travis and Barton Springs by significantly increasing investments in water conservation. | |
| AUSTIN - More than 53 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Texas discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment Texas. | |
| The U.S. Supreme Court issued a split decision today in two Clean Water Act cases, Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers. | |
| More than 58 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Texas discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow between July 2003 and December 2004, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment Texas. | |
| Use of mandatory minimum penalties for clean water enforcement in New Jersey led to a 76 percent drop in violations, according to a report released by the Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG). | |
| The State Auditor's report on TCEQ is just the latest indictment in a string of evidence that shows TCEQ is regularly giving sweetheart deals to law-breaking polluters. The agency is failing to collect the full amount of penalties due to the state. | |