First read the Texas Observer article linked in the 5/29 post just below.
Then watch this WFAA report.
An excerpt from the transcript:
Last January, John Sadlier, deputy director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, appeared before the Fort Worth City Council with what sounded like good news: Eight air samples analyzed in Fort Worth found no traces of benzene, the toxin that — over time — can lead to leukemia.
“Benzene is non-detect on all the slides,” Sadlier said during the January presentation.
But what he didn’t tell Council members was that the analysis equipment that TCEQ used in the field wasn’t sensitive enough to detect lower levels of benzene — the levels that TCEQ’s own scientists say can lead to cancer if sustained over a period of years.
Full story at http://www.wfaa.com
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