Texas Environmental Compliance History with Entity Ratings and Classifications

Annual compliance history ratings and classifications for regulated entities and their customers in Texas, calculated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The data is published by November 15 each year, with classifications ranging from 'High Performer' to 'Unsatisfactory Performer'. It is sourced from the data.texas.gov platform via Socrata.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of Regulated Entity Rating and Customer Rating across TCEQ Region and County.
• Identifying trends in compliance performance over time using Regulated Entity Rating Date and Customer Rating Date.
• Linking regulatory entities to their customers using Regulated Entity Number (RN) and Customer Number (CN) for network analysis.
• Mapping the geographic concentration of performance classifications using City, County, and TCEQ Region columns.

Strengths

• Provides structured regulatory performance data with 14 distinct columns including identifiers, ratings, classifications, and locations.
• Data is updated annually with a clear publication schedule, as indicated by the last update timestamp of 2026-05-21 13:25:18.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness of fields like Additional Identifiers require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), published via data.texas.gov.

Collection Method

Calculated annually by TCEQ based on compliance history, then published.

Time Range

Annual coverage, with ratings published by November 15 each year.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 13:25:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of Texas, United States.