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In a legal win for Harris County, a Texas district court has ruled that the state’s environmental quality commission may have failed to protect public health by giving plant operators nearly a decade to comply with new standards.

The court's ruling requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [TCEQ] to go back and fix the delay in compliance.

The issue stemmed from the environmental quality commission’s attempt to give new concrete-producing facilities in Houston and across the state up to 10 years, or until they renew permits, to comply with more stringent operational requirements adopted by the commission. Last week, Travis County Judge Amy Clark called the commission’s direction “arbitrary and capricious.”

The lawsuit filed by County Atto

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