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Sunset Review

The sunset review in Texas is a state-mandated process that each agency undergoes every 12 years with the stated goal of making them more efficient and effective.

  • The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's 'rubber-stamping' approach to permits makes it nearly impossible for communities to intervene and stand up for their health and safety. Photo illustration: Evan O'Neil.

    Why doesn't Texas prevent the concrete plants from coming into your community?

    By Amal Ahmed
    04.27.2022

  • The "sunset review" is state-mandated process each agency undergoes every 12 years with the stated goal of making them more efficient and effective.

    Texans have an opening to envision an environmental agency that works for everyone

    By Michael Coleman
    11.21.2021

  • Public engagement between TCEQ and industry is 'an exercise in futility,' one expert says.

    TCEQ listens to corporate polluters, not communities. That has to change.

    By Sim Kern
    11.22.2021

  • For years, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality failed to penalize 97 percent of the illegal releases of air pollution in the state.

    When will "tough-on-crime" Texas enforce clean air laws?

    By Amal Ahmed
    03.17.2022

  • Texas' system of monitoring and reliance on polluter self-reporting leaves communities exposed and the picture of air quality hazy and incomplete. Illustration: Evan O'Neil.

    Does Texas know what's in the air in Port Arthur?

    By Amal Ahmed
    01.27.2022

  • TPC Group's Houston plant was among the worst polluters of the cancer-causing 1,3-butadiene in Texas in 2019.

    Butadiene causes cancer. A corporation with a history of illegal pollution wants to release more of it in Houston.

    By Sim Kern
    05.4.2021

  • EPA Administrator Michael Regan ended his "journey to justice" tour in Houston. Photo: Matt Tresaugue.

    With the EPA on board, it's time Texas took Houston's environmental justice problems seriously

    By Keith Downey
    01.26.2022

  • The INEOS plant outside Houston is one of the 10 most toxic industrial polluters nationwide.

    This chemical causes cancer. Here's what Texas needs to do about it.

    By Allyn West
    01.25.2022

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