Texas Group Decries "Avalanche" of EPA Rules
The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation on Monday renewed its criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency, as it released a report citing an "avalanche" of forthcoming rules on air pollution.
"There's really not an environmental crisis," said Kathleen Hartnett White, the foundation's environmental director and the author of the report, at a news conference Monday. Texas has already seen substantial air-quality improvements, she said, because the amounts of ozone and other pollutants in Texas air have fallen considerably in recent decades.
Cyrus Reed, conservation director of the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club, acknowledged the improvements in ...
Comments (9)
Carolyn Qualls via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Try living near an interstate highway and smelling all the exhaust and hearing road noise 24/7. We need regulations and safe conditions, without them conditions would only get worse faster!
Julie Delio via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I would like to invite them to the DFW Metroplex -- especially if they have asthma.
Brandelyn Wiser via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Try living near the petro chemical plants. This is bullshit.
Rick Scott McGuckin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And yet Houston is the #2 smoggiest city behind LA... weird...
Andy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Funded by Koch Industries, what did you think the report would say?
Jamie Lansford via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Asthma rates going up, breast cancer now has a 1 in 3 incidence rate, other cancer rates have increased... but there's no problem, right? No correlation between environmental toxins and human disease, right?
Rudy Gonzales
The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation has known about the EPA and rules for over thirty years. They are pleading negligence otherwise known as stupidity as the rules have been in place and several polluters along the Houston Ship Channel have been put on notice since 2007 that they are not in compliance ans will suffer the consequences. Texas' Public Policy Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government and totally infused by TEA party confrontationalist. This is a non-public organization, with no public input or justification and in fact their membership is totally submissive to the whims of radical extremist. An independent think tank without any verified thinkers in their midst. There are no creditable qualified environmentalist anywhere associated with this fringe grouping, that would lead to valid conclusions concerning the environment, polluting gasses or down-wind investigatory functions at all. Therefore, no one should pay any attention to these misfits.
ChicoMendez
What exactly is the story here? There's no new information, only re-packaging of the same old, tired Perry-like mantras from the same old, tired TPPF crew. Ms. White couldn't write a real report on environmental policy if her life depended on it, so the staff cobbled together this compendium and puts it out as a "report." Then publications like this decide to give it legitimacy by covering it as if it was the real deal. You're not reporting, you're enabling.
audrey fisher
For comic relief, read the TPPF report, it is a typical whine and only addresses the things that they were forced to do earlier. In a let's look back and not to the future, they assume that most Texans don't care about the air quality in future - while at the same time they whine about the financial outlook for the future. Sadly, they really only care about the corporate profits and not about the people's health.