Correct! Not only didn’t Al say that, in 1978, Al chaired the first congressional oversight hearing on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act dealing with toxic waste clean up. This hearing was the first in a lengthy series of hearings that laid the groundwork for passage of the Superfund Act in 1980. At Gore's urging, the committee later undertook a "Waste Disposal Site Survey" of the 53 largest domestic chemical companies. This survey disclosed data on 3,383 disposal sites, approximately 2,000 of which were previously unknown to the EPA.

Uh-oh, Governor Bush - - it looks like Houston’s finally captured the highly coveted "Worst Air Quality In America" award. Maybe letting Texas’ oil and chemical companies write their own environmental guidelines wasn’t such a great idea.