{"id":5656,"date":"2016-09-16T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:11:52","slug":"report-links-texas-oil-and-gas-pollution-to-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"Report Links Texas Oil and Gas Pollution to Asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5657\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5657\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5657\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A new report says more than 144,000 Texas children will experience asthma attacks from oil and gas pollution by 2025. Photo: RobHainer\/iStockphoto\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gr-53864-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new report says more than 144,000 Texas children will experience asthma attacks from oil and gas pollution by 2025. Photo: RobHainer\/iStockphoto<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Mark Richardson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A new report said in the next decade, emissions from oil and gas operations will affect thousands of Texas children\u2019s health who live near or downwind of those facilities. The Clean Air Task Force predicts that by 2025, unless action is taken to curb pollution, ozone smog will cause 144,000 childhood asthma attacks in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Janice Nolen, assistant vice president for national policy with the American Lung Association, said each year, the oil and gas industry emits more than nine million tons of methane and other pollutants that contribute to ozone smog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got pipelines and engines and equipment that have historically just sort of leaked some of these volatile organic compounds and methane, and have not been recognized as being the contributor that they are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The report, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catf.us\/resources\/publications\/files\/Gasping_for_Breath.pdf\" target=\"parent\">Gasping for Breath<\/a>, ranks Texas worst among the states for the potential health effects of ozone smog pollution from oil and gas operations and pinpoints which communities are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the EPA published federal standards to limit pollution from new and modified oil and gas facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Billings, senior vice president for advocacy for the American Lung Association, said the agency is working on standards for older facilities as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving forward with common sense, best practices and setting strict standards and enforcing them, and ensuring that players comply by these rules will go a long way to address the pollution that\u2019s caused by oil and gas extraction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Clean Air Task Force also has created an online map of oil and gas facilities and potential risk areas, at <a href=\"http:\/\/oilandgasthreatmap.com\/\" target=\"parent\">oilandgasthreatmap.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Richardson AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 A new report said in the next decade, emissions from oil and gas operations will affect thousands of Texas children\u2019s health who live near or downwind of those facilities. The Clean Air Task Force predicts that by 2025, unless action is taken to curb pollution, ozone smog will cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}