T.C.E.Q. Fines DCP Midstream For Air Quality Violations
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: July 25, 2012
AUSTIN -- An energy company with West Texas ties is facing more than $600,000 in fines.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fined DCP Midstream $631,628 on Wednesday.
The fines are in response to 11 different air quality violations found during an inspection at a DCP Midstream, LP site in Panola County on August 9, 2011.
DCP Midstream's fine comprises more than 50 percent of the $1,068,720 in fines that the T.C.E.Q. distributed against 36 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations Wednesday.
The T.C.E.Q. will give $315,814 from these fines to the Texas Railroad Commission's Alternative Fuels Clean School Bus Replacement Program to be applied toward the purchase of cleaner school buses.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fined DCP Midstream $631,628 on Wednesday.
The fines are in response to 11 different air quality violations found during an inspection at a DCP Midstream, LP site in Panola County on August 9, 2011.
DCP Midstream's fine comprises more than 50 percent of the $1,068,720 in fines that the T.C.E.Q. distributed against 36 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations Wednesday.
The T.C.E.Q. will give $315,814 from these fines to the Texas Railroad Commission's Alternative Fuels Clean School Bus Replacement Program to be applied toward the purchase of cleaner school buses.
