EPA rejects Texas program that reduced emissions, increased productivity

Why is it one question keeps recurring whenever EPA announces a decision: What is wrong with these people? The latest such example concerns the agency’s rejection of a Texas air quality program that slashed emissions in the Lone Star state while encouraging increased workplace productivity.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality had requested EPA permission to proceed with a flexible permits program covering 122 petroleum processing facilities that had been covered under a trial effort. Air quality in Texas has dramatically improved under TCEQ leadership and EPA approval of its application would have extended the successful program permanently.