EPA grossly underestimates petrochemical pollution

And, especially, here in Texas. How bad is it? The EPA may be missing 90 percent of pollutants, and it knows it. The agency has stalled for years on using lasers and other modern measuring devices in use in much of Europe for years.

Meanwhile, with perfectly bad timing, or perhaps perfectly offensive timing for Earth Day, the Houston Chronicle comes out with an article attack advocacy piece arguing the Clean Air Act has outlived its usefulness.

The answer, of course, is "no." The answer is that the petrochemical industry will always whine about the cost of pollution regulations. If the Act is a "blunt tool," per one commenter, then it can be modified, adapted or expanded. The petrochemical industry wants it abolished, or at least neutered, instead.

What a hack job.