In 1993 the Texas Health and Safety Code enacted a law that allowed the City of Fort Worth to impose a local environmental protection fee for people within its jurisdiction. Revenues generated by the fee may cover costs for disposal services, environmental programs or environmental services. These dedicated funds help the city pay for federal and state environmental mandates such as cleaning up abandoned property, asbestos abatement, underground storage tank compliance, stormwater management, spill response clean-up, and operation of a household hazardous waste collection facility.
As part of the FY26 Budget, an increase to the Environmental Protection Fund was adopted to create a clear, safer city through the addition of five homeless camp clean up crews, replacing aging vehicles and equipment to support operations, adding new street sweeper wash bays at Drop-Off Stations for expanded use and efficiency and securing clean up funding for spills, emergencies and other environmental projects on public properties such as illegal dumping, asbestos, lead paint, soil/groundwater remediation, and underground storage tanks.
The monthly environmental protection fees are: