TCEQ, EPA Region 6 tout pandemic enforcement success

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and EPA Region 6 leaders are touting their enforcement successes even during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling an environmental law conference that they continue to vigorously pursue enforcement while allowing limited discretion from some routine requirements, if warranted. TCEQ Chairman Jon Niermann told an Aug. 6 virtual panel of the Texas Environmental Superconference that the state has a unique enforcement discretion program, which requires regulated companies to explain their need for discretion in an email...