It really is a miracle that somehow there are not 100s of us Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplexers dropping dead daily from breathing the air here. We've got Barnett Shale gas drilling operations that apparently spew more bad stuff into the atmosphere than all the vehicular traffic in D/FW.And then there are the cement kiln spewers that pump bad stuff, like mercury into the air that we breathe, along with a lot of other bad things, like soot and hydrochloric acid.
I know it's short notice, but tomorrow, Wednesday, June 17th, at the Grand Hyatt in DFW International Airport inside Terminal D the Environmental Protection Agency will take public testimony from 10 am til 8 pm. The EPA is working on some new federal rules that might decrease some of the most dangerous types of pollution being spewed by cement plants.
In a surprising twist, the cement industry is lobbying against any new rules that might force them to clean up the air and so they are working hard to thwart President Obama's EPA's first attempt at reigning in some of America's worst polluters.
Go to the Downwinders at Risk website for more information.
Thanks for the heads-up. This is good.
ReplyDeleteDude, Seriously, you think that a drill rig that uses 1000 gallons of diesel fuel per day to drill a well is "pumping" out more fumes than all the cars and trucks in the DFW area in one day - You are getting some seriously wrong information. There are over 1 million cars in DFW and all of them are using 1 gallon per day bud... and there are only 72 rigs drilling in Texas as of today. Go ahead and drive your car to a metting about pollution... That a joke. you are the problem - not the solution.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Dude. You really need to try and keep up on the news. It ain't me who made the claim about natural gas drilling adding more pollutants to D/FW's air than vehicular traffic. A study be the state of Texas confirmed what other's had already found about what makes up the area's air pollution. And where in the world to you get the idea that there are only 72 rigs drilling in Texas today?
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