The following are quotes from Molly Ivins"s book "shrub" "According to the Environmental Defense Fund Texas is number one in overall toxic releases recognized carcinogens in the air suspected carcinogens in the air developmental toxins in the air cancer risk" Houston,Dallas,Fort Worth,El Paso, and Beaumont-Port Arthur are on EPA's non attainment list and Austin,Tyler,San Antonio,and longview are eligible. Houston has beaten out Los angeles as having the dirtiest air in the U.S. In the last 5 years 56 out of 96 non attainment areas got off the list; none of them were in Texas Bushes much vaunted voluntary clean-up of grandfathered air polluters has been a failure. "of 850 grandfathered polluters,28 have come up with a plan to reduce pollution, but only 3 have actuallly done so. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT to [log in to unmask]