Last week, the city passed an ordinance introducing restrictions for concrete batch plants in Dallas. Under it, new batch plants will require public hearings before the City Plan Commission and City ...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, facing pressure from local officials and a federal investigation into its permitting process, has proposed a series of regulatory changes that would ...
As Texans grapple with an influx of concrete batch plants and the toxic dust they sometimes bring to nearby homes, schools and parks, new restrictions to regulate them appear to again be hitting a ...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is working on amendments to the air quality standard permit for concrete batch plants in the state. The first public meeting for this amendment ...
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 ...
A concrete plant in Austin. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says its investigating the Texas Commission on Environmental Qualitys permitting process for concrete batch plants. (Miguel ...
A concrete batch plant is near homes in the Westmoreland Heights neighborhood. Debbie Orozco Solis says folks in her West Dallas neighborhood have to live with a fine dust that sometimes makes it hard ...
Growing up in East Aldine, Shirley Ronquillo fondly remembers visits to James Driver Park. "This is where our families would come and have picnics and birthday parties," she said. "I grew up here." ...