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Texas Guv Not Exactly Challenging Texan Gubernatorial Stereotypes
"Standing inside a warehouse that makes fluid sealing products for the petrochemical industry, Perry said the Texas program for permitting pollutants from petrochemical plants has helped improve air quality."
-Texas governor Rick Perry, objecting to a threat by the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the state's regulatory authority over air quality due to the state's continuing noncompliance with the Clean Air Act, is defiant in his-wait a second, does that really say, "Standing inside a warehouse that makes fluid sealing products for the petrochemical industry"? Yes, yes it does. Sigh. Texas. It's like a whole other country.
But on the other hand, you can light a charcoal grill in Houston without Kingsford. You just fart on it.
I wish Texas was another country.
Or another planet — ideally one that is spiraling in towards the firey embrace of its sun.
If Texas is a model for reducing pollution, then they should be bottling the air from my post-industrial north Jersey hometown and selling it in bars.
Texas only permits the highest quality pollutants.
My brother works for the EPA and is currently working that clusterfuck in the Gulf…that sentence made me LOL.