We know folks that don't want the EPA involved, however they still want air and water. Someone has to step up to the plate. We don't care WHO, as long as they can help.
Both sides and conservation groups agree the battle has put the health of Texas residents and the environment at risk.
"Emissions are too high, the emissions are too toxic and Texas water is being harmed," said EPA regional director, Al Armendariz.
The EPA is "putting politics ahead of the environmental issues," said Bryan Shaw, chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
All are taking steps in the meantime to comply. Except Texas.
And someone please explain to us why the EPA's focus should be job creation? That's like calling an economic development project flood control...
"The administration's focus should be job creation and economic recovery, not unnecessary and burdensome regulations that will threaten jobs and create a drag on business efforts to invest, expand and put people back to work," Howard Felman, API's director of regulatory and scientific affairs, said in a statement.
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