The One-Mile Rule: Texas’ Unwritten and Arbitrary Policy Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

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The policy has been denounced in lawsuits and petitions, but the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality denies that it exists.

By Dylan Baddour

On a rugged stretch of the Gulf Coast in Texas, environmental groups called foul in 2020 when an oil company sought pollution permits to expand its export terminal beside Lavaca Bay. 

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