Border 2020: The Texas-Tamaulipas-Nuevo Leon-Coahuila Regional Workgroup

The U.S.-Mexico Border 2020 Environmental Program has four Regional Workgroups. One of those is the Texas-Tamaulipas-Nuevo Leon-Coahuila Regional Workgroup (or "Four-State Regional Workgroup"), which has three sub-regional task forces.

The Texas/Tamaulipas/Nuevo León/Coahuila Regional Workgroup (often called the "Four-State Regional Workgroup") is one of four regional workgroups in the U.S.-Mexico Border 2020 Environmental Program (successor to Border 2012). That program is a partnership among the U.S. EPA, Mexico’s SEMARNAT (counterpart to EPA), the ten border states in the two countries, and U.S. border tribes.

EPA's main Border 2020 website (with a map of the four regions).
Calendar for Four-State Region

The Four-State Region extends from the Coahuila-Chihuahua border in Mexico (when that border reaches the Rio Grande, it is in the Big Bend area) eastward to the Gulf of Mexico.

As in other regions, the Four-State Regional Workgroup has four co-chairs: one from each of the two federal environmental agencies, and one from a state environmental agency on each side of the border.

Regional Co-Chairs


Federal Co-Chairs
United States	Sam Coleman Deputy Regional Administrator, EPA/Region 6	Mexico	Vacant
State Co-Chairs
United States	Carlos Rubinstein Commissioner, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality	Mexico	Humberto René Salinas Treviño Secretary of Urban Development and the Environment, State of Tamaulipas
Mexico	Biol. Eglantina Canales Secretary of of the Environment, State of Coahuila	Mexico	Ing. Fernando Gutiérrez Moreno Secretary of Sustainable Development, State of Nuevo León

The Regional Workgroup's Task Forces

Because this is a large geographic region with numerous cities, it has been divided geographically into three task forces (see map):

The Amistad Task Force — Val Verde, Kinney, and Maverick Counties in Texas and the Municipios of Acuña and Piedras Negras in Coahuila

The Falcon Task Force — Webb and Zapata Counties in Texas, the Municipio of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas, and the Municipios of Anáhuac and Sabinas Hidalgo in Nuevo León

The Gulf Task Force — Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Starr Counties in Texas and the Municipios of Matamoros, Valle Hermoso, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Miguel Alemán, and Camargo in Tamaulipas

Each task force has co-leaders from both sides of the border and has committees that focus on specific environmental issues (water, waste, etc.). See each task force for additional information, including priorities and projects.