Clean air planners to target 400 big companies.(Brief Article)

GREATER METROPLEX -- Clean air planners in North Texas are preparing to lean on major Metroplex companies that have failed to encourage their employees to ride-share, telecommute or take a bus or train to work to reduce the region's critical levels of ozone.

Clean air committees for the Greater Dallas Chamber and the Fort Worth Chamber, the North Texas Clean Air Coalition, Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Twill initially target about 400 companies with 500 or more employees. Companies with as few as 100 employees will be targeted later.

Top executives at those companies will receive letters in December and January from one of the two chambers, according to Tim …