Attorney General Ken Paxton Protects Texas Environment and Secures $60 Million Judgment Against Recycling Company Dumping Chemicals into River

Attorney General Ken Paxton Protects Texas Environment and Secures $60 Million Judgment Against Recycling Company Dumping Chemicals into River

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for illegally dumping pollutants in Texas waterways and lands. In 2019, a tributary of the Colorado River called Skull Creek turned black with chemical pollution, killing fish and wildlife. Additionally, unpermitted pits of petroleum and chemical-laden earth and leaking chemical containers were discovered nearby, in violation […]