Posts Tagged ‘air pollution’
Asthma Generation
What do cement plants, dirty air, and some of the nation’s highest childhood asthma rates have in common? North Texas.GAYLE REAVES
Larry Tubb doesn’t remember knowing a single kid who had asthma when he was growing up. As a Scout leader 20 years later, he knew of only one troop member who dealt with the breathing disorder. “Now 20 percent of the popula...
TCEQ Goes Fishin’ For Pollution
STATICFour new air pollution monitors are coming to the Barnett Shale soon, courtesy of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and drilling critics can’t wait to hear how the air is actually fine and there’s nothing to wo...
Breaking News: Air Is a Public Issue
Jimmy FowlerIt’s hard to think of a more Orwellian name for a state entity than the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which has apparently been insisting that breathable air is not an issue of “environmental quality” down h...