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But some feel that's moved traffic and emissions onto wiltshire's roads. we've seen significant increases in terms of heavy goods vehicles coming through the middle of westbury. we're here on a street where the trucks are going, what, a metre and a half from people's front doors. so, we've we've taken an air quality problem in bath and simply transposed it to the middle of an area where it's going to create a worse air quality problem. birmingham's zone generated £37 million in fines over the last 18 months. nationally, poor air quality causes something like 36,000 excess deaths each year. bu...

Regulators how much they are polluting. >> when they flare that gas, when they burn that off it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide. it's a dangerous pollutant we've got this massive air quality problem. and the state of texas and the epa are just not monitoring out there. the reason they're not monitoring is because their formulas are dependent on population >> reporter: the permian basin is 86,000 square miles, extending from texas into new mexico, bigger than the state of kansas. there'sing on one functioning sulfur dioxide air monitor in the entire texas portion, it's right here in big spring...

But this is texas, a state where the energy companies tell the regulators how much they are polluting. >> when they flare that gas, when they burn that off it releases a lot of sulfur gas, they burn that off, it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide, a dangerous pollutant. we've got this massive air quality problem in the permian basin and the state of texas and the epa are just not monitoring out there. the reason they're not monitoring is because their formulas are dependent on population >> the permian basin is 86,000 square miles it extends from texas into new mexico put another way, it's bigge...

For a quarter of current global warming. but this is texas, a state where the energy companies tell the r regulators how much they're polluting. >> when they flare that off and burn that uh, it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide. we've got this massive air quality problem in the permian basin and the state of texas and the epa are just not monitoring out there. and the reason they're not monitoring is because their formulas are dependent on population. >> the permian basin is 86,000 square miles. it extends from texas to new mexico. put another way, it's bigger than the state of kansas. there's ...

To the naked eye if the public could see this, there would be no fracking >> reporter: it exceeds nationally mandated standards and a recent study found it trapped heat at a rate more than 80 times that of co2, accounting for a quarter of current global warming. but this is texas. a state where the energy companies tell the regulators how much they are polluting. >> it releases a lot of sulfur dioxide. and we have a massive air quality problem in the permian basin and the state of texas and the eepa are not monitoring. and the reason they are not monitoring is because their formulas are depend...