Panel considers driving restrictions.

Publication: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Byline: Scott Streater

Nov. 26--Regional leaders want to take some dramatic steps to clean the air in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and you're probably not going to like what they've come up with.

The North Central Texas Council of Governments is finalizing a list of pollution-control strategies they plan to recommend that the state and federal government adopt into law in the nine-county region. And most of the 80 proposed strategies focus on tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks, the largest source of ozone-producing emissions in Fort Worth-Dallas.

But even if all these strategies are eventually approved and put into place, they won't be enough to bring the region into compliance with tough federal ozone standards, regional planners say.

The proposed list includes pollution-control strategies that would:

Make driving more expensive. Because a lot of tailpipe emissions occur while idling, regional leaders are proposing prohibiting the...

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