Dirty Air, Dirty Money: Grandfathered Pollution Pays Dividends Downwind in Austin

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This report builds on earlier research. It would not have been possible without the important work of several environmental groups that stepped into the breach created by government inaction, ferreted out grandfathered pollution data and made it available to the public.

The latest such work is Grandfathered Air Pollution: The Dirty Secret of Texas Industries, released in April 1998 by the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention and the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. The pollution data in this study come from that earlier work, the principal author of which was Neil Carman, director of the Sierra Club's Texas Clean Air Program.

The Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition produced another important study in 1997 entitled The Granddaddy of All Loopholes. SEED State Director Peter Altman critiqued a draft of this report.

Dirty Air, Dirty Money represents the collaborative work of Texans for Public Justice's staff: Aimée Daigle, Craig McDonald, Bill Medaille, Fred Richardson and Andrew Wheat.

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