Analysis Of Texas Environmental Problems By John Cagney Nash

Author, John Cagney Nash, in his news article Texas Environmental Problems, elaborates to the problems caused by the insignificant increase of pollution in the air around the state of Texas. Nash’s purpose is to further inform others of the environmental impact natural resources such as petrochemical and chemical goods are causing in Texas. He adopts a serious yet informative tone to further convey his significant message on the struggles the huge state of Texas faces for his adult readers and the people who would like further information on Texas. Nash initiates his article Texas Environmental Problem by establishing facts about the state of Texas and their form of economic survival while contradicting the use of such economic prosperities. He evokes that “Texas is the largest emitter of carbon in the United States” (2) to rationalize the reason the air is polluted and that gases such as “ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide” (2) might contaminate the air but are essential to the Texan industries for their flourishing success. In addition, Nash continues his article by giving facts about the water in Texas being glutted with “run-off from centers of population, factories and farms that all alter the chemical constitution of water” (3) creating a deeper predicament for the people in Texas. He also gives the specific dilemma that

air and the water of the Rio Grande River”(4) causing a massive amount of pollution. Nash recapitulates that “Texas counties experienced pollution increases of more than a quarter, and some by almost 50 percent” (4) due to the pollution caused by the Maquiladoras. He also states that Texas” makes it cheaper to pollute than to not pollute”(5) and follows that up by rendering how “companies are literally paid to create environmental problems”(5) rather than helping the Texas