{"id":127532,"date":"2026-01-18T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127532\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:10:07","slug":"2m-in-fines-approved-against-texas-entities-for-environmental-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127532\/","title":{"rendered":"$2M in fines approved against Texas entities for environmental violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2189413121-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A view of a fluosilicic acid tank used for water fluoridation at the Davis Water Treatment Plant, Austin, Texas, November 18, 2009. (Photo by John Anderson\/The Austin Chronicle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has approved $1,909,731 in fines against 71 different entities for regulation violations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   TCEQ approves fines <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The most recent fines, approved on Wednesday, totaled $1,751,893, and were levied against 22 entities who the commission says violated regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The orders were issued for the following enforcement categories:<\/p>\n<p> Four air qualityTwo industrial wastewater dischargeTwo multi-mediaEight municipal wastewater dischargeFive public water systems <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A default order was also issued for a petroleum storage tank.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Another $157,838 in fines were approved Tuesday for 49 entities. Those entities were not categorized in the TCEQ&#8217;s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">To read more about the fines approved Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tceq.texas.gov\/downloads\/agency\/decisions\/agendas\/2026\/260114.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here to see the commission&#8217;s agenda<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A view of a fluosilicic acid tank used for water fluoridation at the Davis Water Treatment Plant,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-127532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}