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Texas AG office briefs Senate committee on Rio Grande settlement progress and pending environmental suits
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Deputy Attorney General Austin Kinghorn updated the Senate Committee on Natural Resources on progress toward resolving Rio Grande Compact litigation and on the office—s environmental enforcement docket, saying many suits remain pending as the U.S. Department of Justice transitions to a new administration.
Austin Kinghorn, deputy attorney general for civil litigation in the Texas Office of the Attorney General, told the Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development on the committee—s organizational hearing day that his office has made progress toward settling long-running litigation arising under the Rio Grande Compact and is managing dozens of environmental suits challenging federal regulation.
Kinghorn said he and members of the Environmental Protection Division were in Pittsburgh last week for mediation in the Rio Grande Compact litigation, a dispute that began in 2013 when Texas sued New Mexico over upriver groundwater…
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