The Ozone Problem in Dallas-Fort Worth
(and how our cars, cement plants, power plants, and natural gas utilities contribute to the problem)
You've found the ozone analysis page of Al Armendariz at SMU. I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering.
You can find out about my other research, teaching, and service activities at SMU on other pages.
This page is dedicated to a report I recently completed about the ozone smog problem in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Specifically, I wrote about the plan proposed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to solve the problem, and I made recommendations to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about how they should proceed as they review the state plan.
Technical Analysis of the 2007 Dallas-Fort Worth 8-Hour Ozone SIP
On June 15, 2007, the State of Texas submitted to the US Environmental Protection Agency revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Dallas-Fort Worth Ozone Nonattainment Area. The State of Texas was required to submit a SIP that had regulations and programs to get the DFW area into compliance with the federal Clean Air Act ozone standard.
I prepared an independent technical analysis of the SIP, including evaluations of the photochemical modeling and the weight of evidence. In contrast to the conclusions of the State of Texas, my analysis demonstrated that the Submitted SIP is legally and substantially inadequate and that the DFW area will not be in compliance with the ozone standard by the attainment date of June 15, 2010 with this Plan.
Please contact me at aja at engr.smu.edu if you have any questions. You can read my analysis, the State's SIP, and my references at these links:
Armendariz, Al, "Technical Analysis of the 2007 Dallas-Fort Worth 8-Hour Ozone SIP," June 6, 2007.
The 2007 ozone SIP and the importance of Tarrant and Denton Counties
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