Texas Environmental Enforcement Notices With Violation Details

Notices of Enforcement issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality document investigations and violations of environmental regulations. Each record includes details such as the regulated entity, violation categories, geographic coordinates, and enforcement dates. The dataset is maintained by data.texas.gov and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic clusters of violations using Latitude and Longitude columns with Physical County data.
• Identify common violation types by analyzing Cat. A Violation Citations and Cat. B Violation Citations across different Business Types.
• Track enforcement trends over time by aggregating records by NOE Date and TCEQ Region Name.
• Assess the regulatory burden on specific entities by joining records on Regulated Entity Number and filtering by Total Violation Count.

Strengths

• Includes precise geographic coordinates via Latitude and Longitude columns for spatial analysis.
• Provides detailed breakdown of violations across three categories (A, B, C) with specific citation codes.

Limitations

• Unknown row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and statistical significance.
• Potential for duplicate records as investigations with multiple violations may be listed more than once.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the state of Texas, as indicated by Mailing State data.

Provenance

Source

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality via data.texas.gov.

Collection Method

Compiled from official enforcement investigations and notices.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

Texas, United States.