Results tagged “environmentalprotection”

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-backed plan to clean up Houston's air doesn't go far enough, according to a suit filed yesterday by a local environmental group — in fact, the group claims, changes in the local air-quality rules would actually allow industries to pump more smog-forming pollution into the air. The proposed revisions to the clean-air plan were submitted by the state of Texas and approved by the EPA in September. They shift the... more ›