City leaders dress down state's pollution monitors

I think this is the article Dr. Klineberg brought to class:

HoustonChronicle.com - City leaders dress down state's pollution monitors: "City leaders on Monday questioned whether the state's environmental agency was responding fast enough to reports showing high levels of cancer-causing chemicals in southeast Houston and some East Harris County communities.

'What we are hearing today ... we've been talking about for 15 years,' said Councilwoman and Mayor Pro-Tem Carol Alvarado, in a special City Council meeting called to address the high concentrations of pollutants in the city's air.

'I don't see the seriousness of the issue from your agency,' Alvarado said. 'Frankly, I just don't know if you get it.'

In their first public appearance in Houston since they released data showing that some residents are at greater risk of cancer because of toxic air pollutants, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality officials said that they have already taken steps in the communities where their monitors found high concentrations of pollution, and they would not quit working until the concentrations reached safe levels. [...]"