Banjo Jones reports that Houston has been socked with a huge penalty by Texas environmental regulators:
State enviro regulators have ordered H-Town to pay nearly $1 million in penalties for unauthorized discharges from 11 of its wastewater treatment plants. One fine is for $969,195. Then another fine of $17,500 was added for additional infractions that occurred at a later date.
Though Houston fell short of the million dollar mark for its crappy wastewater treatment plants, it went over the magic mark if you consider another $40,348 in penalties that were assessed against the city for air pollution infractions.
Congratulations, Houston. When you top the million dollar mark in environmental penalties in a single month, you’ve definitely reached international city status, along with Bombay, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, and so forth.
Dare we suggest that it’s World Class (albeit not in a good sense)?
We haven’t seen reporting on this from Chronicle environmental reporter Dina Cappiello, or any other Chronicle reporter for that matter.
