Comments on: Texas Is No. 1 Carbon Polluter In U.S.

Everything's Bigger In Texas, Including Vehicles, Which Are Leaving A Big Carbon Footprint

[micma-2009]

Bush''s roll-back of Clean Air Act protections has been a huge money maker for corporate polluters and a bust for anyone who likes to breath.

[bm6005]

Texas is the "number one" wind powered electricity generator in the United States and soon to be the world...........
Posted by donbl1

That''s due to all the frickin'' hot air from you yahoo''s.

[micma-2009]

One part ignorance, one part denial and two parts greed equal a recipe for disaster as the Bush Administration rolls back the Clean Air Act and lets industry build and improve plants without upgrading pollution control equipment. As this disaster unfolds, the spotlight should be on Texas, the state responsible for two-thirds of U.S. petrochemical production. Here, for a long time, the industry has used our air and water as a dumping ground without knowing or wanting to know how much toxic pollution the refineries and plants spew out each day. A weaker Clean Air Act means Texas industry stands to reap financial savings for not installing pollution control devices. Left to live with the illness and health care costs are the communities and families that cannot escape the health effects of the pollution.

[micma-2009]

2003

A collaboration of state, local and national groups today released a new study that calculates, for the first time ever, the pollution burden that the nation could suffer if the Bush administration succeeds in its likely proposal to gut the Clean Air Act''s New Source Review program. The report, Smokestack Rollback: How the Bush administration''s Clean Air Act proposals will increase toxic refinery pollution and jeopardize public health, focuses on the public health threats posed by expected increases in oil industry pollution as a result of the Bush administration''s proposals.

[micma-2009]

The Clean Air Act, passed in 1970, is arguably the most successful public health and environmental law ever. The benefits of this landmark legislation have far outweighed its costs. But the Bush administration is engaged in the most serious effort to roll back the Clean Air Act since its enactment.

When the Clean Air Act became law, compromises were made in order to get it passed. One of these was grandfathering in thousands of the oldest and dirtiest power plants and refineries, which were allowed to pollute up to ten times more than modern plants. Under a provision called New Source Review (NSR), however, if these dirty facilities expand, they have to upgrade to new anti-pollution technologies and modern pollution-control equipment.

n its latest attack on the Clean Air Act, the Bush administration has moved to eviscerate NSR and allow these plants to expand and pollute even more. On December 30 last year, the EPA issued revisions to the NSR rules, permitting thousands of aging coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites to upgrade without having to install new anti-pollution devices. Slated to go into effect in March, the new rules make all but the most flagrant polluters virtually immune from government legal action. Companies will also be given greater latitude in calculating pollution, reducing the likelihood that new pollution controls will be required.

[micma-2009]

The Bush Administration''s Roll Back of Clean Air Protections is a National Disaster for Public Health.

Oil Giants Could Increase Pollution by Two to 140 Times Current Emissions Without Triggering Pollution Control Requirements.

[whadl]

Let''s not jump all over Texas too quickly. If you do a fair comparison, I''d bet it would come out considerably different. For example, how would California come out if you included the emissions produced for their consumption, rather than simply the emissions produced in their state. That would be a little more fair, don''t you think? Remember, California hasn''t built a new power plant in the last 500 years or so - they buy all their power from neighboring states.

This article really does not contain anything but meaningless, superficial data designed to get people up in arms. For those who bite on such things, it was apparently successful.

[micma-2009]

Thanks go to Bush for rolling back Texas environmental regulation and putting all the biggest polluters in the state on the honor system. Bush''s "No Corporation Left Behind" plan is great for polluters and terrible for the public.

[whadl]

Let''s not jump all over Texas too quickly. If you do a fair comparison, I''d bet it would come out considerably different. For example, how would California come out if you included the emissions produced for their consumption, rather than simply the emissions produced in their state. That would be a little more fair, don''t you think? Remember, California hasn''t built a new power plant in the last 500 years or so - they buy all their power from neighboring states.

This article really does not contain anything but meaningless, superficial data designed to get people up in arms. For those who bite on such things, it was apparently successful.

[easeup-2009]

Thanks for all you hysterical liberal pillow-biters for backing up my previous post!!!

"WAHHHH!!! IT''S BUSH''S FAULT!!!! WAAAA!!!!!"

Hey M-O-R-O-N-S, it''s the REFINERIES.

God you people are stupid.