Bill White's campaign said Perry, who appoints the commissioners who oversee the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, has put employers at risk through the state's policies
By Peggy Fikac - Express-News
Web Posted: 05/27/2010 12:00 CDT
AUSTIN — Texas has “weeks, not years” to show it's willing to comply with the Clean Air Act or face the prospect of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency taking over its entire air-pollution-permitting program, the EPA's regional administrator said Wednesday.
“We have to get good air-quality permits issued in Texas, and either the state of Texas does it, or I'll have to,” Al Armendariz said, adding: “I'm hopeful that the state will correct the deficiencies and stay as the permitting authority in the state of Texas.”
His pronouncement upped the ante a day after EPA took over the issuance of an operating permit for one major facility and said it might do the same for some 39 others to which it has objected unless the state makes changes.
Armendariz said there are “significant problems” not only with those individual permits but with the program itself, and that the Clean Air Act would require the federal government to take over every air-quality permit if deficiencies aren't corrected.
Read the whole story at this link to the San Antonio Express-News: http://www.mysanantonio.com/livinggreensa/epa_says_it_can_enforce_law_if_texas_wont_94975839.html
1 comment:
Talk about air pollution! What about the wholesale burning of brush and trash throughout the state. The only restriction is burn bans during dry periods. Other States have long ago totally banned the practice. This whole thing could be avoided if burning were completely banned in the State. The federal government wants more control over our lives and Texas is making it easy for them. Thanks Governor Perry and the worthless legislature!
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