"Paul E. Lehmann" wrote in message ...

Convince the government that it needs to do something about the horrible air
pollution problem in Houston and perhaps the wild life will come back.

Houston's air pollution problem was with ground-level ozone ONLY.
According to the EPA, there are SIX components or kinds of air
pollution, ozone being just ONE of them.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...tates%22&hl=en
"According to EPA, Los Angeles' air still is ranked in a poorer
category than the air in Houston. While Houston violates the federal
standard for ozone, Los Angeles violates the standards for ozone,
carbon monoxide, and particulate matter."

http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_sout....af.0.a4.cccba.
html
"In some ways, calling Houston America's smoggiest city misrepresented
the relative quality of air in the two cities. Los Angeles' air is
worse than Houston's in other categories."

More recent info on ozone violations:

http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=50752
Metropolitan Areas with the Worst Ozone Air Pollution
1 LOS ANGELES-RIVERSIDE-ORANGE COUNTY, CA
2 FRESNO, CA
3 BAKERSFIELD, CA
4 VISALIA- -PORTERVILLE, CA
5 HOUSTON-BAYTOWN-HUNTSVILLE, TX CMSA
6 MERCED, CA
7 SACRAMENTO-ARDEN-ARCADE--TRUCKEE, CA-NV
8 HANFORD-CORCORAN, CA
9 KNOXVILLE-SEVIERVILLE-LA FOLLETTE, TN
10 DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX CMSA

And overall air quality:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/2056693
Number of days in 2000-2002 when air quality was unhealthy
1. Riverside-San Bernardino, Ca. 445 days
2. Fresno, Ca. 421
3. Bakersfield, Ca. 409
4. Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ca. 255
5. Sacramento, Ca. 163
6. Pittsburgh, Penn. 134
7. Knoxville, Tenn. 109
8. Birmingham, Al. 100
9. Houston, Tx. 94
10. Baltimore, Md. 93

And particle pollution:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science....ap/index.html
".... 1999-2001 EPA data, do not take into account a pollutant that's
considered more dangerous than smog -- tiny particles of soot
that can lodge deep in the lungs and cause heart problems and even
death."

http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=50752
Metropolitan Areas Most Polluted by Year-Round Particle Pollution
1 LOS ANGELES-LONG BEACH-RIVERSIDE, CA
2 VISALIA-PORTERVILLE, CA
3 BAKERSFIELD, CA
4 FRESNO-MADERA, CA
5 PITTSBURGH-NEW CASTLE, PA
6 DETROIT-WARREN-FLINT, MI
7 ATLANTA-SANDY SPRINGS-GAINESVILLE, GA
8 CLEVELAND-AKRON-ELYRIA, OH
9 HANFORD-CORCORAN, CA
10 BIRMINGHAM-HOOVER-CULLMAN, AL
(Houston is not on the list of 26 cities)