Super Bowl of smog

Super conservative Texas governor Greg Abbott, and his cronies really don’t give a hoot about their citizens health during this massive heat wave that has plagued Texas.

One must wonder if they are racist because high levels of air pollution are disproportionately harming Black and Latino children in Texas. According to a Rice University study, 13% of Black children in Houston have an asthma diagnosis compared with 7% of Hispanic children and 4% of white children and Asian children.

Houston has made the top 10 list for most polluted cities in the country for zone. They are now in the Super Bowl of smog.

When heat waves meet air pollution, death risk rise substantially. Smog levels in Texas are surging during this heat wave. This is Texas’s worse summer air quality in a decade. Emissions are reacting with the summer heat to create high levels of smog, hazardous air pollution that damages the lungs.

State officials are pushing back on ozone pollution controls proposed by the EPA, arguing such rules would compromise their electrical grid.

Epidemiologist Vijay Limaye, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council said, “extreme heat is often thought of in this country as an inconvenience rather than a life-threatening danger, but we know that when organ systems in the body are under stress from extreme heat, they’re extremely vulnerable to other assaults from air pollution.”

It is interesting, that crybabies, Texas politicians and Texas regulatory agencies are fighting the federal government, hoping to block stricter regulations on air pollution. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas have all opposed the EPA’s plan. The agencies argue that the requirements could force power plants to switch sources from natural gas or coal to renewable energy.

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