EnvironmentI strongly support the underlying goals of our nation’s environmental laws like the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and those that protect our National Parks and wildlife habitats. They were passed to safeguard both people and the environment. Since these laws were first written twenty five years ago, we have accomplished a lot. We have made our rivers cleaner and the air we breathe healthier. The EPA does a diligent job of monitoring society’s impact on the world around it.
Breathing Cleaner Air: The Clean Air Act provides a complex and comprehensive framework for regulating stationary and mobile sources of air pollution. The law emphasizes controlling "major sources" that emit higher than safe quantities of regulated pollutants known to be harmful to health (Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Nitrogen Dioxide, Particulate Matter, Ozone, and Sulfur Oxides). Since its enactment, the country has made a marked improvement in making the air we breathe cleaner. There has also been steady and significant progress in Texas and ozone air quality is improving more than the national average. This has occurred while the Texas economy has been growing faster than the national average and our population has risen by nearly twice the national average.
Keeping our Water Clean: Our abilities to control point source watershed pollution have made our rivers and lakes cleaner. We must also be conscious of water availability in times drought and do our part in putting forth an effort to utilize conservation practices. To achieve this goal, the American people need to be personally involved in decisions about how we protect our environment and develop common sense approaches to land management.
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