Houston Mayor Sworn In, Promises to Target Polluters
Bill White, the state’s former Democratic Party chairman, was sworn in as mayor of Houston and pledged to make the polluted oil-industry city greener and cleaner.
White, who held his inauguration ceremony in a park to drive home his environmental agenda, put polluters on notice that their actions would not be tolerated in a city that has vied with Los Angeles for the nation’s worst smog.
“Let me talk plainly then -- no one has the right to endanger public health by altering the chemistry of the air we breathe,” White told several thousand people gathered at an outdoor theater in Hermann Park.
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