Texas Coal Plants: Emission Rules? More Like Emission Suggestions
Across Texas and the U.S., coal-fired plants and petrochemical factories are basically playing hide-and-seek with toxic emission rules. These facilities enjoy special VIP passes that allow them to skip pesky pollution limits, ensuring smokestacks can keep puffing without a care. While neighbors choke on the air, regulators apparently decided that 'toxic emissions' are just a fancy suggestion, not a rule. Despite decades of climate catastrophe headlines, these plants' smokestacks treat environmental laws like they're Hogwarts' invisibility cloaks. And in good old Texas, where everything's biggerâincluding the pollution waiversâthis freedom dance keeps on ignoring the smoggy facts.
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Texas coal plants treating emission rules like expired coupons: ignored, ripped in half, and definitely not accepted at checkout. Welcome to Toxic Emissions Unitedâ˘, where clean air took a permanent vacation.
Why limit toxic emissions when you can just outlaw clean air? Texas coal plants seem to think the Clean Air Act was more of a bedtime story than a legal requirement.
If skipping rules were an Olympic sport, Texas coal and petrochemical plants would bring home gold, silver, and a smoked-out trophy shaped like a smokestack.
Source: Grist | Published: 8/31/2025 | Author: Elena Bruess, Capital & Main
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