BJ Austin, KERA News (2010-02-05)
DALLAS, TX (KERA) – The new EPA chief in this region says changes are happening at a very fast pace a year into the Obama Administration. KERA’s BJ Austin says that’s just what an audience of gas drilling critics wanted to hear.
Two days after Dr. Al Armendariz was sworn in as EPA Administrator for Region 6 — Texas and surrounding states — he “headlined” a meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance – a group critical of Barnett Shale gas drilling operations. The welcome from the large crowd at a hotel in east Fort Worth had more rock star flavor than federal bureaucrat. He told the crowd new rules and regulations are moving fast at the EPA.
