The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is attempting to align its air permit program with federal requirements to better protect our air quality. If that makes you feel comfortable, well … stop. A growing number of angry residents, politicians, and a reinvigorated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are taking hard looks at TCEQ’s method of doing business, but that slippery snake of a state agency has proven over and over that its main ambition is to protect rather than regulate the industries that pollute our skies.