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COM'N ON ENVTL. QUALITY v. MAVERICK CTY.

No. 19-1108.

642 S.W.3d 537 (2022)

TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY and Dos Repúblicas Coal Partnership, Petitioners, v. MAVERICK COUNTY, City of Eagle Pass, Environmental Defense Fund, Walter Herring, Ernesto Ibarra, Gabriel De La Cerda, Mike Hernandez, Boulware and Anson Family, Ltd., and Maverick County Environmental and Public Health Association, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion Delivered: February 11, 2022.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Courtney Cox Smith , James D. Bradbury , for Amici Curiae The Texas Farm Bureau, The Texas Association of Dairymen, The Texas Cattle Feeders Association, The Texas Poultry Federation, The Texas Pork Producers Assoc, The Texas Egg Council.

Bill Davis , Austin, Brent Webster , Houston, Cynthia Woelk , Jeffrey C. Mateer , Austin, Shawn Cowles , Linda B. Secord , Priscilla M. Hubenak , Warren Kenneth Paxton , Austin, S. Grant Dorfman , Bellaire, Darren Lee McCarty , Judd E. Stone II , Daniel C. Wiseman , Austin, for Petitioner Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Leonard H. Dougal , Ali Abazari , Austin, Heather Heartfield , Jennifer Caughey , Houston, William (Bill) J. Cobb III , for Petitioner Dos Repúblicas Coal Partnership.

Robert Banse III , Thomas M. Weber , Austin, Paul Robert Tough , Adam Friedman , for Respondents Maverick County Environmental and Public Health Association, Environmental Defense Fund, De La Cerda, Gabriel, City of Eagle Pass, Ibarra, Ernesto, Hernandez, Mike, Boulware and Anson Family, Ltd., Herring, Walter.

Stacey Steinbach , for Amicus Curiae Texas Water Conservation Association.

David O. Frederick , for Respondent Maverick County.

In 2013, Dos Repúblicas Coal Partnership (DRCP) applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for renewal of a permit for wastewater discharge at a coal mine. TCEQ granted the permit. Years later, the primary question before this Court is whether, all along, DRCP was the correct...

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