Controversial Pollution Rule Still On Track for Texas
As the Obama administration pulls back on a broad rule to combat ozone pollution, a different rule that would also reduce smog-forming chemicals in Texas remains on track.
To the delight of conservatives in Texas and nationwide, the White House announced on Friday that ground-level ozone levels would be reviewed in 2013 rather than tightened immediately. But the controversial “cross-state pollution” rule, which aims at tightening emissions from power plants in Texas and 26 other states, remains scheduled for implementation in January. The cross-state rule targets nitrogen oxides, an ozone precursor, as well as sulfur dioxide, which is not an ...
Comments (8)
Elmo
TCEQ = Rick Perry's Cronies. Hell they wanted to put 5 in Mclennan County and had no problem with it. Each stands on it on they said......... Bull Chet!
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Okay. But conservation needs to be the first order of business.
Leslie Hancock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If we have rolling blackouts on 100+ degree days next summer, people will die. That's not hyperbole - elders can't handle that heat.
Leslie Hancock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Also, if electricity plants get shut down due to these regulations, thousands more will lose their jobs, and electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket, hurting the poor, elderly, and unemployed the most. Now is not the time to tighten the noose on electricity providers.
David Spratt
How will these Sierra club types work after dark, Candles? We already had power shortages this summer and of all things last winter. Yes by all means shut down coal fired plants so there will be less available power. Prices will rise and there still will not be enough to go around. These tree hugger types wanted us for years to use natural gas, when there was not enough to go around.. Now that we have access to vast reserves of it, probably 100 yrs worth, they now come out against the processes that remove it from the ground. Wind turbines and solar will not generate enough to power industry no matter how many of them you build, and now they are against those as well, since birds occasionally fly into them. Face the facts, all environmental groups would have us riding bicycles if they could and reading at night by tallow candles. We could not even ride horses since they obviously emit greenhouse gasses. Look at the per head tax on emissions of greenhouse gasses they have tried to push through on people that own cattle. There are billions of barrels of oil in Alberta the Canuks want to sell us, but these nut cases claim we cannot build a pipeline to Texas. FOR GODS SAKE WE WENT TO THE MOON, AND WE CANNOT BUILD A PIPELINE FROM CANADA TO TEXAS? AS FAR AS I KNOW THE CANADIANS HAVE NEVER FLOWN A JET AIRLINER INTO ANY BUILDING IN THE U.S. OR THREATENED THE U.S. IN ANY WAY. Realize these tofurkey eating nuts are responsible for killing U.S. jobs just as much if not more than the current administration and cause us to be reliant on foreign sources of energy that are not controllable or stable. Fossil fuels are what we use for our energy needs and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that. When the market place is ready and technology has advanced enough that will change, until then dig the coal, pump the oil, and frac every btu of gas you can,we need every bit we can get.
Elmo
Typical of city folk comments. I 'll trade with you. You come by this 125 car load of Montana coal plant that emits mercury wether it is running or not. Check it out city dewellers. MERCURY is a KILLER. burn natureal gas it is cleaner and cheaper. Typical of people who have no clue and think the foodrs come from a supermarket
Henry Potter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
But I don't understand. How can this be? Doesn't Obama know best?
Wes Maddox via Texas Tribune on Facebook
we gotta get this clown outta office.