State Slams EPA Website That Compares Pollution Enforcement
By Dave Fehling, Houston Public Media
![This flue gas scrubber, installed at a Valero refinery in Houston in 2006, reduces emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter.](https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/eDn0C8R2PXpFuAyG1IzAjW5rLEk=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(75)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/Houston-flue-gas-scrubber01.jpg)
Compared with other states, Texas performs far fewer comprehensive inspections of polluting facilities, according to a database run by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. But Texas officials call the database misleading. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.
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