Border 2025: The Texas-Tamaulipas-Nuevo Leon-Coahuila Regional Workgroup
The U.S.-Mexico Border 2025 Environmental Program, 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, 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.
- EPA's main Border 2025 website (with a map of the four regions).
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◊ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S.-México Border Health Commission (BHC) have signed an agreement to leverage their collective resources to address public health and environmental challenges along the U.S.-Mexico Border. |
As in the 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 |
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United States |
Dr. Earthea Nance Regional Administrator U.S. EPA/Region 6 |
Mexico |
Ing. Horacio del Angel SEMARNAT |
State Co-Chairs |
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United States |
Bobby Janecka |
Mexico |
Arq. Karina Lizeth Saldivar Lartigue |
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Mexico |
Q.B.P Diana Susana Estens De La Garza |
Mexico |
Dr. Alfonso Martinez, Secretary of Sustainable Development, |
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 Cities of Nava, 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 Cities of Anáhuac and Sabinas Hidalgo in Nuevo León
The Gulf Task Force — Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Starr Counties in Texas and the Cities 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.