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The official Instagram of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. #WeAreTCEQ #TakeCareOfTexas
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Tell @the_tceq that pre-production plastics don’t belong in our waterways! 💧 More info at our link in bio. #texas #water #texaswater #pollution
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There’s more wigs than Cowboy hats in Texas. 250 years after leaving England we are in the same state of life. Taxes, militarization, private business over the people, good ole boy games, government corruption, all the things. Time to throw the tea kids.
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🎨🌎 Calling all young artists in Texas! The Take Care of Texas Student Art Contest is now open! Create artwork showing how you, your family, and your friends can reduce waste and care for our environment. ♻️💚 👩‍🎨 Who can enter: Texas students in grades K–12, including public, private, and homeschooled students. 📅 Deadline: December 18, 2026 — entries must be postmarked by this date. 🖍️ Artwork requirements: • Use 8.5 × 11-inch paper. • Illustrate positive ways to reduce waste. • Include the words “Take Care of Texas,” spelled correctly. 🏆 Prizes: • Grades K–10: $250 gift card for each category winner; $100 for each runner-up. • Grades 11–12: $2,000 scholarship for the winner; $1,000 for the runner-up. Mail your artwork with the required entry form, and review the official rules before entering. Organized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Shared by Harbour Kollective as a community opportunity. 🎨🌎 德州嘅小朋友同青少年，發揮創意嘅機會嚟啦！ Take Care of Texas 學生繪畫比賽開始接受作品！用畫筆畫出你同屋企人、朋友可以點樣減少廢物，一齊愛護環境！♻️💚 👩‍🎨 參賽對象：德州 K–12 年級學生，包括公立、私立學校及在家自學學生。 📅 截止日期：2026 年 12 月 18 日，以郵戳為準。 🖍️ 作品要求： • 使用 8.5 × 11 吋畫紙。 • 畫出減少廢物嘅好方法。 • 加入「Take Care of Texas」字句，記得串啱字！ 🏆 獎項： • K–10 年級：各組冠軍 $250 禮品卡，亞軍 $100。 • 11–12 年級：冠軍 $2,000 獎學金，亞軍 $1,000。 參賽前記得睇清官方規則，並將作品連同所需參賽表格一齊郵寄。 主辦：德州環境品質委員會（TCEQ） Harbour Kollective 社區資訊分享 💙 🔗 Official rules & entry details｜官方規則及參賽詳情： https://takecareoftexas.org/education/art-contest-rules #TakeCareOfTexas #StudentArtContest #TexasStudents #HarbourKollective #減少廢物 環保教育 學生繪畫比賽
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🚨 PACIFICO UPDATE: THE PRESSURE IS BEING HEARD. Pacifico’s permit is still PENDING — but Texas just hit pause on permits sought by ALL data-center projects. 204 public-meeting requests. 161 written comments. Keep speaking up. Keep showing up. This isn’t over. LostPinesWatch.org
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We all needed some good news. Let’s take a breath and dig our heels in! ⚡️Comment SCHOOL to join our School Coalition focused on protecting the health and future of our children. ⚡️Comment DONATE to help us spread information about how to fight this project even further. Thank you, Bastrop County, for banding together!
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What if you could see exactly how your mercury is processed to remove from the biosphere for good? You don't have to imagine it. You can walk the floor. VLS Texas Molecular is scheduling site tours at our Deer Park TSDF — the only place in the U.S. offering commercial, permanent elemental mercury disposal. Come see the technology, the safety, and the compliance for yourself. Call us to schedule a tour at 877-861-8588 or by email at info@vlses.com. Here's what you'll be looking at: - Patent-pending technology that permanently removes elemental mercury from the biosphere - A 40+ year safety record: zero accidents affecting public health, 20 years without a lost-time incident - A TCEQ compliance rating of zero — the best score obtainable - Full EPA and TCEQ permits to accept and dispose of elemental mercury - 225,000 million gallons of annual capacity, ready when you are For gold miners, utilities, laboratories, universities, and government agencies, this is the chance to take mercury off your risk profile — permanently. The stockpiling era is over. What comes next is a legal, compliant, ready-now path forward. If you do one thing this quarter, make it this: see the solution in person and stop carrying mercury risk you no longer have to. Read the blog to learn how the solution works at https://www.vlses.com/stay-in-the-know/newsroom/elemental-mercury-disposal-is-no-longer-in-limbo/. Then reach out to schedule a tour. #HazardousWaste #MercuryDisposal #EnvironmentalCompliance #VLSEnvironmentalSolutions
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VLS Texas Molecular in Deer Park, TX, has secured the state and federal permits to permanently dispose of elemental mercury. What that means for you: - Dispose of RCRA hazardous (D009) mercury waste legally, right here in the U.S. - Meet full EPA and TCEQ requirements, backed by our facility's compliance rating of zero — the best score obtainable. - Move mercury off your risk profile permanently, without waiting for Congress to act. Compliance shouldn't depend on legislation that may never come. Now it doesn't have to. See how the new solution gives you a legal, permanent path forward at https://www.vlses.com/stay-in-the-know/newsroom/elemental-mercury-disposal-is-no-longer-in-limbo/. #HazardousWaste #MercuryDisposal #RegulatoryCompliance #VLSEnvironmentalSolutions
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When you're disposing of hazardous waste, "trust us" isn't good enough. The numbers have to back it up. At VLS Texas Molecular in Deer Park, we do. Our facility holds a TCEQ compliance rating of zero — the best score obtainable. And that rating isn't a one-time achievement. It reflects how we operate every single day. Here's what more than 40 years of disciplined operations looks like: - Zero accidents affecting public health or the environment - 20 years without a lost-time incident - Zero impacts to groundwater or drinking water sources - The disposal method the EPA considers the safest available For gold miners, utilities, laboratories, and government agencies, that track record matters. When you hand off elemental mercury, you're trusting that it will be managed safely, permanently, and in full compliance with EPA and TCEQ requirements. That trust is exactly what decades of proven performance are built to earn. Safe disposal isn't a marketing claim. It's a record you can verify. See the full safety and compliance story behind our elemental mercury disposal solution at https://www.vlses.com/stay-in-the-know/newsroom/elemental-mercury-disposal-is-no-longer-in-limbo/. #HazardousWaste #MercuryDisposal #EnvironmentalCompliance #VLSEnvironmentalSolutions
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The only commercial, permanent disposal solution for elemental mercury in the United States is officially available at VLS Texas Molecular in Deer Park, TX. Here's what this means for you: - You can finally dispose of RCRA hazardous (D009) mercury waste legally, compliantly, and right here in the U.S. - Our patent-pending solution permanently removes mercury from the biosphere — no more indefinite storage, no more risk sitting on your site. - Every step is backed by full EPA and TCEQ compliance, with our Deer Park facility holding TCEQ's best-possible compliance rating of zero. Read the full story behind the solution and what it means for your operations at https://www.vlses.com/stay-in-the-know/newsroom/elemental-mercury-disposal-is-no-longer-in-limbo/. #HazardousWaste #MercuryDisposal #EnvironmentalCompliance #VLSEnvironmentalSolutions
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Our next students in the Environmental Science Summer Internship series are Laura Feist, Leah Juhnke, and Liz Manley! My name is Laura Feist, and I completed a summer 2026 internship with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Austin, Texas, as a Stormwater Team Intern. During my internship I reviewed Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) annual reports for compliance with state and federal permit requirements, managed regulatory data, and supported the agency's stormwater compliance program. ⛈️💻📋🌎 I'm Leah Juhnke, a senior Environmental Science student, and I worked as a summer Environmental Intern at Cimarron Valley Engineering in Coyle, Oklahoma. I was under the direction of Matthew Coe, P.E. During my internship I assisted with engineering reports, technical memoranda, funding applications, and other environmental and water infrastructure projects serving rural Oklahoma communities, while applying federal and state regulations to help ensure project compliance. 💦📑🗂️💻 My name is Liz Manley, and I worked this summer as a Permitting Intern at Reagan Smith in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During my internship I helped with well pad staking, conducted biological assessments, and aided with field work in areas of Texas and Oklahoma. 👷🏻‍♀️🥾🛻📓
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🚨 MARATHON IS FINALLY GOING TO FACE THE PUBLIC... and last week's meeting left me with questions. After the Aug. 4 refinery incident that reportedly released more than 15 TONS of pollutants, residents packed the San Juan Senior Center wanting answers. Veronica Carbajal was there. Josh Acevedo was there. Escobar was there. Residents living near the refinery were there. But MARATHON wasn't. 🏭 Neither was TCEQ, the Texas agency responsible for much of the refinery's environmental regulation. That's important because TCEQ is NOT part of the federal EPA. EPA says Clean Air Act permitting in Texas is primarily TCEQ's responsibility, although EPA retains federal oversight. So if Marathon wasn't there and TCEQ wasn't there, what exactly could a member of Congress accomplish for residents who came wanting answers about Marathon? 🤔 To be fair, Escobar DID send letters to EPA and TCEQ. But residents weren't there for another Republican vs. Democrat vs. Trump conversation. They wanted answers. Meanwhile, residents, Josh Acevedo and City Council have been pushing locally to get Marathon in front of the community. And now Marathon is finally showing up. 📅 Oct. 6 at 6 PM 📍 Riverside High School 301 Midway Dr. Marathon says it will discuss what happened, emissions, air-monitoring results and changes to community notifications. And then there's this. 👀 📸 I took this photo TODAY, Sept. 1. You can clearly see a plume coming from the refinery area. A photo can't tell us what's in it or whether it's dangerous. But after Aug. 4, residents shouldn't have to wonder what they're seeing or breathing. This shouldn't be about who gets the microphone, the politics or the photo. Get Marathon AND the people with actual authority in the room with the people who breathe this air. What do you think? 👇 🔗 Full sources in comments. #ElPaso #EPTX #MarathonRefinery #ElPasoTexas #ToDoElPaso
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Congratulations to our Public Works employees who recently earned professional certifications through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality! 👏👏 🚰 David Burroughs - Class D water operator 🚰 Kaitlynn Lee - Class D water operator 🚰 Luis Hernandez - Class D water operator 🚰 Patricia Garcia - Class C surface water treatment operator 🚰 Mark Gaytan - Class C water distribution operator 🚰 Mario Villafuerte III - Class C water distribution operator David Burroughs
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