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EPA overturns Texas permit program

Published: July 1, 2010
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Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP Writer Houston — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program EPA officials say violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country’s largest refineries in limbo. The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The [...]

Texas industries worry about EPA crackdown

Published: October 14, 2009
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John McFarland AP Writer Dallas (AP) — For 15 years, environmentalists have complained that state regulations have allowed the powerful oil and chemical industries to skirt Clean Air Act standards in Texas, the nation’s foremost producer of industrial air pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency last month scrapped several aspects of the state’s air-pollution permitting [...]