Texas Oil & Gas Recycling Facility Loses Appeal Over Waste Order

A Texas waste-processing facility that leaked hazardous materials into nearby Skull Creek, a Colorado River tributary, is stuck with a temporary restraining order despite its concern that a lower court didn’t have jurisdiction over its sister company, a state appeals court said Thursday.

The Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, affirmed that the lower court had jurisdiction over Boundary Ventures, a company at the same location as Inland Environmental and Remediation. The trial court issued a temporary restraining order Inland Environmental and its president, David Polston, to cease discharges of waste into state waters, but that was later amended by ...