Let's convert the gas and electricity companies from private, for profit businesses to publicly owned utilities. Deregulation has led to higher prices, not lower prices for me. Making gas and electricity public owned utilities will lower the cost of those essential services for consumers and create a push to help individual residents and citizens to improve energy efficiency and reduce pollution.

Let's enforce existing air pollution laws and other environmental
regulations in Houston. Since 1981 big businesses have been getting away with murder because the government hasn't been aggressively enforcing air pollution laws as well as other environmental laws. Self regulation by industry means no regulation.

We have proximity and regulatory influence over 1/3rd of the oil refining in the United States. By enforcing the laws not only could we improve the air quality for Houstonians but we could improve it for the state of Texas, the United States and the world.