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COLUMBUS — The Lower Colorado River Basin Coalition said it deplores a series of toxic spills on Skull Creek that have killed fish and endangered wildlife and humans, and it
Read moreALTAIR — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has provided no timetables to begin remediation and cleanup of a long stretch of Skull Creek leading from Altair to the Colorado
Read moreAUSTIN — Just before 6 p.m. Friday, Judge Scott H. Jenkins of the 53rd State District Court of Travis County granted a request for, and issued, a temporary restraining order prohibiting Inland Environmental from further contaminating Skull Creek.
Read moreSAN SABA — The Lower Colorado River Authority Board of Directors on Tuesday at their regular meeting in San Saba, adopted a resolution granting their general manager the authority to take whatever action is necessary to pursue enforcement actions concerning the recent contamination in Skull Creek.
Read moreCOLUMBUS — 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 moreSometime last year, one of our longtime readers, Greg Fore, brought me a wooden spoon. Some of you who have visited with me in our offices have seen it sitting
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.
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