Subdude Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 June 16, 2007, 11:53PMNew delay requested on smog cleanupState wants 9 more years to improve Houston-area airBy DINA CAPPIELLOCopyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Gov. Rick Perry's letter to the EPA Texas officially asked the federal government Friday for an extra nine years to meet health standards for ground-level ozone, saying that it would be "practicably impossible" for the eight-county Houston-Galveston region to comply with the law by 2010.The request marks the latest postponement in the decades-long saga to clean up Houston's smog and seeks more time than both the county and city wanted. If granted, the city would be the last place in the state and one of the last areas in the country to meet health guidelines for the lung-irritating pollutant.Houston's first federal deadline to meet ozone standards was in 1975. The new deadline would be June 2019.Gov. Rick Perry, in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dated Friday, said while progress had been made, the region needed more time."Given the huge population, one of the largest and most comprehensively controlled petrochemical complexes in the world, and subtropical climate, the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area faces great challenges," Perry wrote, " ... not even a complete shutdown of the Houston Ship Channel would bring about sufficient reductions."Link to full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
713 To 214 Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...og.3e0972c.html_________________________________Houston joins Los Angeles in 'severe' smog category09:58 AM CDT on Thursday, October 2, 2008Associated PressHOUSTON (AP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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