Officials from the EPA and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality declined a NASA offer to collect air quality data over the Houston area after the hurricane.
A NASA-operated DC-8 plane, which the agency uses to collect atmospheric samples, sits in its hangar in Palmdale. A House panel is investigating why the EPA denied use of the plane to monitor pollution in the Houston area after Hurricane Harvey.
“While NASA and TCEQ were able to provide comprehensive responses in an appropriate period of time, EPA missed every deadline and chose to offer irrelevant and unrelated documents,” the chairwomen wrote. In response to The Times’ report and the congressional investigation, EPA officials insisted that they had no authority over the decision and that even if they did, NASA’s offer wouldn’t have provided useful scientific information.
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