{"id":10427,"date":"2019-05-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baghouse.com\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:33:38","slug":"texas-to-reduce-ozone-creating-emissions-for-greater-houston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/texas-to-reduce-ozone-creating-emissions-for-greater-houston-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas to reduce ozone-creating emissions for Greater Houston Area"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Changes to Texas\u2019 clean air plan has now been approved by the EPA. The clean air plan serves to improve the regulation of storage tanks and also give reasonable control for technology that serves to guide the regulation of emissions that go to the ozone layer. This move would help the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area to enhance the quality of its air and to better attain the 2008 ozone standard that was set. The state of Texas is committed to improving the ozone layer and makings its air cleaner, a spokesperson for the state says, because this would help communities that are living in the state. In the 2008 ozone standard, the area under consideration was analyzed as a moderate non-attainable classification from a marginal non-attainable classification. Therefore, the EPA has now shown that is it approving Texas\u2019 plans to regulate the emission of volatile organic compounds from storage tanks. It was determined by the EPA that this new move will work with the state\u2019s already existing regulations on volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxide. This is important because these two compounds, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxide, react in the presence of sunlight to produce ozone pollution at the ground level that harms the quality of the air. Next, some background on ozone pollution and air quality is analyzed.<\/p>\n

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