Morning News Climbs on Fair Share Bandwagon

Although they never actually use our Campaign name (maybe because their news division has done its best to ignore it), the Friday editorial makes the same case we do and calls on the state to respond to the desires of local governments to do more to cut toxic and smog-forming VOCs from the gas industry.

It also issues an important call for area elected officials to come to the July 14th TCEQ hearing in Arlington and directly request those larger cuts:

“While state regulators have sometimes seemed impervious to public comments, this opportunity is North Texas’ best shot to improve yet another lackluster air-pollution plan. If local leaders stay silent, the TCEQ will stick with the laissez-faire approach that has left our area in a smog-filled haze.”

We would only argue with the “sometimes” language. For the last ten years or so, TCEQ has been remarkably consistent in always ignoring the public in North Texas when it comes to clean air plans. Still, the moment we give up challenging the Commission is the moment TCEQ will claim the public must like what it’s breathing.

Belated thanks to the editorial staff and yet another plea to get the paper’s Metro editors on the same page in covering local environmental stories. It’s getting really tiresome to find the only coverage of clean air efforts on the opinion pages.