There was also a letter to the editor published over the weekend in the Dallas Morning News.
Posted at 4:10 PM on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010
Letter to the Editor
Rescue us from bad air, feds
Re: "State finds no pollution risk in Midlothian -- Mayor hails report; environmentalists, others assail study," Wednesday news story.
As a high school student in the '50s, I was taught by a conservative economics teacher to fear federal intervention and to preserve states' rights.
Now I feel conflicted, because I find myself sincerely hoping that the feds will come in and override that not-believable Texas Commission on Environmental Quality report on the safety of Midlothian air.
What happens in Midlothian affects all of the metroplex and the health of all of us. How many of us have commented on the brown air when we fly into Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport? How many of us now have allergies when before we had none? And who among us feels safe breathing our Dallas air?
The TCEQ has graciously invited the pollution plants 25 miles from us to carry on, and it is our and our children's health that will suffer.
Come on in, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We need you to protect us from our own.
Donald J. Malouf, Dallas
The cartoon and the letter speak for themselves.
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