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January 27, 2010
Overall, TCEQ Chief Toxicologist Dr. Michael Honeycutt said based on the test results, the commission believes there is “no need for widespread alarm” among North Texas residents since the vast majority of the monitors showed volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to be within acceptable levels while the problems were relegated to only a few select locations.
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January 19, 2010
The Bush administration had to be a golden age for the oil and gas industry. The president, although a scion of New England Brahmins and a Yale-man, spoke like a Texan and once ran an oil company, albeit with only middling success.
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January 08, 2010
For Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth and some other areas of Texas, which still don't meet the old standard, the new regulations would mean finding a way to cut emissions drastically or risk losing federal highway dollars. But sharply negative reaction from the governor and state environmental regulators highlight the long-standing and deep division separating Texas, which supplies the rest of the country with oil, chemicals and gas, from environmentalists pushing for federal minimums that would ensure cleaner air nationwide.
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