The leaks from Houston-based Third Coast Infrastructure have stopped. It's estimated to be the largest oil spill in the US since BP's Deepwater Horizon.
In recent years, the panel has faced other heated curriculum battles surrounding how evolution and U.S. history are taught to more than 5 million students.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled this week that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality did not impose stringent-enough emissions standards for a planned liquified natural gas production facility in southeast Texas.