Perhaps San Antonio would still be in compliance with federal clean air standards had it created an emissions program like Austin's 20 years ago.
It will now face stricter federal regulations, including rolling out a now-mandatory vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program that will be overseen by the state.
In response, local elected officials and air quality planners in Bexar County, which was already in what officials called “near-nonattainment,” proposed to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that it create a voluntary plan to help meet the new standards and avoid federal mandates.The idea was to allow each county or region to craft plans to meet federal standards yet still be driven by local desires and decisions.
Barnes suggests San Antonio would still be in attainment today if it had also created an emissions program 20 years ago. But at the time, AACOG officials said data showed that pollution wafting in from other states, and even as far away as Mexico,
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