Annual Report
Each year TERC assembles an annual report describing how TERC air quality research has been used to improve the air quality in the Houston, Dallas and east Texas areas. These reports summarize the significant research findings, how those findings are incorporated into policy which in turn creates a healthier place to live and breathe.
May 2008 Report Excerpt
In 2007, TERC sharply focused in a number of follow-up projects on analyzing data collected in TexAQS II. The goal is to ensure that the findings are useful to officials at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), who are charged with formulating the official ozone-reducing blueprints for the Houston and DFW areas. These State Implementation Plans (or SIPs) must receive the approval of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which decides if they will eliminate enough ozone-forming pollution so a metro area will comply with the ozone standard.
TERC's analyses of TexAQS II data are in keeping with a major update of the consortium's Strategic Research Plan, which was approved by the TERC board in late 2007. The revised plan spells out the organization's air quality research priorities for the 2007-09 period. NTRD, meanwhile, continued to expand the array of projects it supports that foster innovative NOx-cutting technologies for diesel engines. With the projects that were approved in 2007 and early 2008, under TERC's management, NTRD has launched 40 such initiatives, with funding that totals $19.2 million.
All of these projects are squarely aimed at developing, verifying, and certifying technologies so they can be rapidly commercialized and start reducing ozone-forming NOx emissions as soon as possible.
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