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COLUMBUS — Colorado County Judge Ty Prause last week characterized the investigation by three state agencies in to multiple incidents of contamination at Skull Creek over the last 60 days as “bureaucratic chaos,” and said officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality “either could not or would not” tell him when testing on water samples taken from the creek in February would be completed.
Read moreAUSTIN--State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Bren-ham) believes it is time for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to be reviewed by the Texas Sunset Commission in the wake of the agency’s response to contamination in Skull Creek over the last two months.
Read moreAUSTIN — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has referred a case relating to two separate contamination incidents at Skull Creek to the Texas Attorney General’s Office for further action.
Read moreWhat does your religion say about environmental stewardship? What does your church call you to do when it comes to political activism in regard to environmental calamity? These are two
Read moreCOLUMBUS — In the wake of a third contamination incident at Skull Creek occurring sometime over the weekend, Colorado County Commissioners Monday morning voted unanimously to authorize the county judge to exercise enforcement power available to the county under Chapter 7 of the Texas Water Code following an executive session lasting just under an hour.
Read moreA possible source for black material or sludge found in Skull Creek downstream of Inland Recycling, approximately a half mile is the anaerobic process that is found in the bottom
Read moreAUSTIN—Officials with Texas Campaign for the Environment, an environmental protection group in Austin that has provided some assistiance to area residents in fighting permit applications by Altair Disposal Services to build a hazardous waste dump near Altair, said last week that the Skull Creek debacle is just another example that the agency has failed at exercising its mandate to protect the state’s environment.
Read moreThe Texas Commission on Environmental Quality determined as early as Feb. 12 that the substance found in Skull Creek following a Feb. 8 discharge created conditions that “are an imminent threat and substantial endangerment to human health and/or the environment,” according to a letter from a TCEQ official to owners of Inland Recycling, LLC.
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