The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has approved fines amounting to $249,607 against 15 entities for breaching state environmental regulations. The penalties were issued through agreed orders in several categories: air quality, industrial wastewater discharges, multi-media, municipal wastewater discharges, public water systems, and water quality.

Additionally, default orders were given in the areas of air quality, multi-media, and municipal solid waste.

On October 29th, the executive director authorized further penalties totaling $43,709 against 16 entities.

Details from the recent meeting are available on TCEQ's website. The next agenda meeting is planned for November 20th and will be streamed live online. Previous meetings can be accessed via TCEQ's YouTube channel. Updates are also shared on Twitter under @TCEQ.