Advocates worry the regulations provided now don’t offer much protection from air pollution, specifically particulate matter.
After Dallas approved tighter restrictions on new batch plants in the city, the state is looking into them too.The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is working on amendments to the air quality standard permit forin the state. The first public meeting for this amendment process took place Wednesday in Austin, where attendees asked the agency how and if it planned to provide more protections for the environment and communities living near these batch plants.
"They use it to assume that all plants operating in compliance will generate the same emissions," Bazan said."That model includes background concentrations and then adds the emissions of a plant. They use that to determine impact at the property line."But she said the review is skewed because it assumes these plants operate in a vacuum, and it doesn't consider the added effects of other sources of pollution in the same area.
"A number of communities we work with here in the city of Dallas make comments about environmental justice implications of these batch plants in minority communities and the response to comments from the agency are always along the lines of 'The agency reviews without reference to socioeconomic or racial status, and that the TCEQ is committed to addressing environmental equity,'" Bazan said at the meeting.
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