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EPA to downgrade Dallas air quality to serious
Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 18, 2011 | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

Posted on 01/19/2011 4:19:29 PM PST by TLI

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I live and work in the heart of Dallas and the air is fine and the sky is clear. But the feds will make us all go broke and starve to “save” us from the boogieman.

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1 posted on 01/19/2011 4:19:33 PM PST by TLI
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I'd downgrade it to

SERIES.

2 posted on 01/19/2011 4:22:48 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: TLI

Amazing, you would think DC is at war with TX?

Pray for America


3 posted on 01/19/2011 4:24:24 PM PST by bray (Support Palin to make heads explode on both sides,is that Blood Libel?)
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To: TLI
I live and work in the heart of Dallas and the air is fine and the sky is clear.

I agree completely. The air quality is great as far as I'm concerned. This is a manufactured "issue", a make-work project for the EPA (just one of the numerous government agencies that should be decomissioned).

4 posted on 01/19/2011 4:24:29 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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State of Texas to Washington DC EPA

Don’t mess with Texas.

If we wanted your opinion, we’d tell it to ya.


5 posted on 01/19/2011 4:25:28 PM PST by edcoil (Democrat's and vampires should never be invited in your home.)
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To: SIDENET

You must admit, though, the problem is HUGH!


6 posted on 01/19/2011 4:25:51 PM PST by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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This is a HUGH deal! :-)

I guess it’s time to go out and by that respirator now.


7 posted on 01/19/2011 4:27:18 PM PST by nick42
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Seen this coming....EPA has got to be corralled.


8 posted on 01/19/2011 4:27:47 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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Ironic that this report comes out of Houston...the city with THE WORST air quality in the state!


9 posted on 01/19/2011 4:27:54 PM PST by hockeyfan (Keep the Change!)
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VENDETTA: 2: an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vendetta
10 posted on 01/19/2011 4:28:21 PM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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Dallas should downgrade the EPA to useless.


11 posted on 01/19/2011 4:29:17 PM PST by EyeGuy (Gimme Shelter)
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Wow, this is hugh!


12 posted on 01/19/2011 4:30:13 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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Freeper downgrades EPA status to:

Defunct


13 posted on 01/19/2011 4:30:21 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Leo Farnsworth

It is huge if you are the Environmental Parasite Agency trying to tell people in Texas what to do.They don’t stand a chance.


14 posted on 01/19/2011 4:32:54 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: EyeGuy

LOL!


15 posted on 01/19/2011 4:33:36 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: TLI

I moved here from the New Orleans area. The air is much cleaner in the DFW area. Fewer allergies and asthma attacks.


16 posted on 01/19/2011 4:38:06 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Amazing, you would think DC is at war with TX?

While Dallas' population grew by 24 percent between 2000 and 2009, its ozone levels dropped by 16 percent — from 102 ppb to 86 ppb — showing the state had worked to clean up the air but still falling short of the federal standard. This led the EPA to reclassify the city's air as "serious," Brymer said.

Now, all the models show Dallas will be well under the 84 ppb mark by 2013 — but by then the EPA's new guidelines will demand cities to have an eight-hour ozone level of between 60 ppb to 70 ppb, which Dallas won't be able to achieve within two years, Brymer said.

I can see this one coming. EPA will "save" us by forcing more crap in the gasoline or shut down some power plants.

They will pizz and moan about their "cap" while breaking their own deal with the new "cap" that they thought up for July 31 of THIS year.

If the pubies want to make MASSIVE budget cuts I have a suggestion on where to make a really big one...

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17 posted on 01/19/2011 4:39:14 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Not only is any action by the EPA Unconstitutional but also the mere existence of the EPA is Unconstitutional since regulating the environment is not an enumerated power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution! The EPA must be abolished!


18 posted on 01/19/2011 4:39:24 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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It sounds like it’s going to be almost impossible for any city to get to that 60 to 70 ppb 8 hr reading. Evidently in many rural areas background readings during the summer months are often above 75 ppb. Dallas is not even in the top ten US metro areas for ozone levels:

Know where your city stands. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2010 lists these 10 cities as the country’s most polluted by ozone:

1.Los Angeles, Calif., metropolitan area (including Long Beach and Riverside)
2.Bakersfield, Calif.
3.Visalia and Porterville, Calif.
4.Fresno and Madera, Calif.
5.Sacramento, Calif., metropolitan area (including Arden-Arcade and Yuba City)
6.Hanford and Corcoran, Calif.
7.Houston, Texas, metropolitan area (including Baytown and Huntsville)
8.San Diego, Calif., metropolitan area (including Carlsbad and San Marcos)
9.San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles, Calif.
10.Charlotte, N.C., metropolitan area (including Gastonia and Salisbury)

Another power play by the EPA which needs to be slapped down. They’ve got TExas in their sights. , Perry has done a lot of tough talking recently, let’s see if he’s actually grown a pair.


19 posted on 01/19/2011 5:13:07 PM PST by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: SIDENET

This is hugh!


20 posted on 01/19/2011 5:14:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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