Texas Air Pollution More Than Doubled in 2018

“Unauthorized” air pollution from Texas industries more than doubled from 2017 to 2018, an environmental group reported Wednesday, and it’s not expected to get better under the lax rules of the Trump administration.

Environment Texas found that heavy industry spewed more than 135 million pounds of pollution into the air during “emission events.”

That more than doubled the 63 million pounds released in 2017, according to a similar report released in January. Both reports analyzed pollution data that companies are required to submit to regulators at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The new report comes amid a string of high-profile industrial accidents in southeast Texas this year, including a November refinery explosion that injured three workers and prompted at least six lawsuits.

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