/tags/air-quality Air Quality en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:53:07 GMT /energy-environment/2025-06-06/saharan-desert-dust-haze-air-quality-wildfires-austin-tx The dust can be dangerous, especially for people with lung conditions or otherwise compromised health. But it can also quell hurricane activity in the Atlantic, fertilize depleted soils and bring striking sunsets. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:53:07 GMT /energy-environment/2025-06-06/saharan-desert-dust-haze-air-quality-wildfires-austin-tx Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2025-04-28/austin-tx-travis-county-air-quality-report Dangerous emissions and increasingly hot days are combining to worsen Austin's air quality. Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:03:00 GMT /energy-environment/2025-04-28/austin-tx-travis-county-air-quality-report Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2024-07-03/austin-fireworks-air-quality-health Not only do fireworks scare animals and injure people, they are also bad for air quality when there's no wind to blow the smoke away. Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:14:00 GMT /energy-environment/2024-07-03/austin-fireworks-air-quality-health Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2024-05-29/austin-texas-smog-air-quality-haze Usually, Austin can expect a day or two a year when smoke in the air rises to a level deemed dangerous for some people. We've already had eight such days this year, and it's only May. Wed, 29 May 2024 18:00:14 GMT /energy-environment/2024-05-29/austin-texas-smog-air-quality-haze Mose Buchele /transportation/2024-05-13/i-35-expansion-funding-capital-area-metropolitan-planning-organization-vote-air-pollution Despite air quality concerns, the CAMPO board opted to continue funding the I-35 expansion over worries the money could disappear. Mon, 13 May 2024 23:07:06 GMT /transportation/2024-05-13/i-35-expansion-funding-capital-area-metropolitan-planning-organization-vote-air-pollution Nathan Bernier /energy-environment/2023-06-07/whats-an-ozone-action-day-in-austin Ozone, commonly known as smog, is a reactive gas that can have effects on respiratory and skin health. Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:51:38 GMT /energy-environment/2023-06-07/whats-an-ozone-action-day-in-austin Haya Panjwani /energy-environment/2021-10-14/illegal-air-pollution-in-texas-dropped-more-than-50-during-the-pandemic-experts-fear-its-an-outlier A new report analyzing data gathered by the TECQ finds the drop stemmed largely from the pandemic-related downturn in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Rising production in 2021 is already leading to a comparable rise in illegal pollution. Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:34:43 GMT /energy-environment/2021-10-14/illegal-air-pollution-in-texas-dropped-more-than-50-during-the-pandemic-experts-fear-its-an-outlier Andrew Schneider /energy-environment/2021-07-12/the-long-strange-trip-that-brings-saharan-dust-to-texas Dust blown all the way from Africa’s Saharan Desert is arriving this week in Texas, which happens every year around this time. Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:14:28 GMT /energy-environment/2021-07-12/the-long-strange-trip-that-brings-saharan-dust-to-texas Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2020-10-20/some-air-pollutants-increased-in-austin-during-the-pandemic-the-big-question-is-why Lee esta historia en español. As COVID-19 spread across the globe in the spring, people noticed a strange side-effect of the pandemic: The air was getting� Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:04:00 GMT /energy-environment/2020-10-20/some-air-pollutants-increased-in-austin-during-the-pandemic-the-big-question-is-why Mose Buchele /energy-environment/2020-04-20/austins-air-quality-is-getting-worse-american-lung-association-says Austin’s air was more polluted with toxic particles than ever before in the period from 2016 through 2018, according to the American Lung Association. The� Tue, 21 Apr 2020 04:01:00 GMT /energy-environment/2020-04-20/austins-air-quality-is-getting-worse-american-lung-association-says Mose Buchele