Texas Clean Air Facts
A new video from the Texas Clean Air Facts project produced by ACT partner EDF.
Corresponding fact sheets are available for download: August 2010 Clean Air Facts
ACT Releases “Texas Air Permitting and Enforcement” in preparation for TCEQ Sunset Review
Today, ACT’s most recent publication–”TCEQ Air Permitting and Enforcement: Improving Texas’ Air through the Sunset Review Process”– is featured in the Texas Tribune. The paper is available for download in PDF.
From the introduction:
On its surface, Texas’ air quality is an issue so intricate in its detail and so sensitive to our fickle Texas weather as to confound even the most committed observer. Our state environmental agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), is tasked with not only understanding our state’s air but with regulating it to ensure that its quality does not pose a threat to human health or environmental integrity. This regulation entails an enormous effort that includes air monitoring, health advisories, toxicological sampling and air modeling research. The foundation of air quality regulation in Texas as it is in any other state, however, is permitting and the effective enforcement of those permits. Read the rest of this entry »
