CONSTRUCTION BOOM
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:55 am
By Scott Streater , StarTelegram Staff Writer
At a construction site in north Fort Worth, where they're building an Eckerd Drug, black smoke billows from a huge excavator as it strains to lift a concrete block.
Across the street, where construction crews are preparing to build a Walgreens drugstore, road graders noisily plow the dirt as plumes of exhaust trail them like shadows.
Such scenes are played out daily across the Metroplex, where growth has unleashed one of the largest sources of air pollution in the region: diesel-powered construction equipment.
But whereas motorists are subjected each year to the hassle of automobile emission inspections, and industries such as power plants have spent millions to cut emissions, little regulatory attention has been given to the construction industry.
At a construction site in north Fort Worth, where they're building an Eckerd Drug, black smoke billows from a huge excavator as it strains to lift a concrete block.
Across the street, where construction crews are preparing to build a Walgreens drugstore, road graders noisily plow the dirt as plumes of exhaust trail them like shadows.
Such scenes are played out daily across the Metroplex, where growth has unleashed one of the largest sources of air pollution in the region: diesel-powered construction equipment.
But whereas motorists are subjected each year to the hassle of automobile emission inspections, and industries such as power plants have spent millions to cut emissions, little regulatory attention has been given to the construction industry.