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"Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?"
Lane Olinghouse
Air quality problems in Texas are serious.
More than half of Texas residents live in areas that do not meet Federal standards for ozone, and over the last several years, Houston has matched or surpassed Los Angeles as the metropolitan area with the highest ozone levels in the United States.* All this airborne pollution is taking its toll on human health, our ability to enjoy our scenic vistas, local ecosystems though acid rain, and the gobal environment through startospheric ozone depeletion and the green house effect..
Air quality issues in Texas, their problems and solutions, can be divided into seven categories:
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