The “1-mile rule”: Texas’ unwritten, arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
Dozens of Texas environmental groups have argued in petitions before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that TCEQ unlawfully restricts access to judicial review, including through the 1-mile ...
Whenever a company plans to release pollution into the environment, it needs a permit. In Texas, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is responsible for issuing those permits. Citizens are ...
The “1-mile rule”: Texas’ unwritten, arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
PORT LAVACA — On a rugged stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas, environmental groups called foul in 2020 when an oil company sought pollution permits to expand its export terminal beside Lavaca Bay. Led ...
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The “1-mile rule”: Texas’ unwritten, arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
Max Midstreams Seahawk Oil Terminal sits about 4 miles across Lavaca Bay from a jetty at Port Lavaca. (Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News, Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News) Sign up for The Brief, The ...
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