The legal dispute over the WOTUS has drawn on for two decades and may be resolved this year in a U.S. Supreme Court case.
With a prospective redesignation from the EPA on the horizon, the Texas governor is going on the offensive against the federal government.
The inspections began this month and will continue through mid-August.
While coal is not king in Texas like it is in West Virginia, coal producers in Texas are taking note of the court's ruling that the EPA overstepped its bounds.
After President Biden signs the bill into law, the EPA will begin its rulemaking process before full implementation of the new law.
The new project will be chiefly aimed at collecting public input from minority and low-income residents around the areas the TCEQ oversees.
"Texans deserve answers about why these shortfalls occurred and how they’re going to be corrected, and Texans will get those answers.”
About five months since its announcement, the Trump Administration's new WOTUS rule goes into effect after a federal judge denied a motion for an injunction.
The OMB budget proposal serves as a guide to Congress for what the president would like to see instituted. The last time Congress passed a budget before the fiscal year deadline was 1996.
The Port Neches facility had been dubbed a "high priority" emissions violator by the EPA since 2017.
The methane rule proposal is just the latest effort by the Trump administration to undo the regulatory policies of the Obama administration.
