State Report for TEXAS

Report from the Pollution Locator | Smog and Particulates section of Scorecard
Criteria Air Pollutant Report: TEXAS
 

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Air Quality Rankings: Health Risks, Exposures, and Emissions

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Carbon Monoxide emissions:
Nitrogen Oxides emissions:
PM-2.5 emissions:
PM-10 emissions:
Sulfur Dioxide emissions:
Volatile Organic Compound emissions:
Person-days in exceedance of national air quality standard for ozone (1-hour):
Person-days in exceedance of national air quality standard for ozone (8-hour):
Person-days in exceedance of national air quality standard for PM-10 (24-hour):

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Health Risks

Population Exposed to Unhealthy Levels of Criteria Air Pollutants:

Pollutant Person-days
in exceedance
of NAAQS
Ozone
    8-hour average 780,794,391
    1-hour average 313,275,765
PM-10
    24-hour average 40,209,852
    Annual arithmetic mean 705,436
PM-25
    Annual arithmetic mean 705,436


Exposures to Criteria Air Pollutants

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1999 Emissions Summary of Criteria Air Pollutants

(Expressed in tons of pollutant emitted)
  Carbon
monoxide
Nitrogen
oxides
PM-2.5 PM-10 Sulfur
dioxide
Volatile
organic
compounds
Mobile Sources5,161,0111,274,494346,0281,873,475113,121600,335
Area Sources532,55940,542201,509797,7998,361545,339
Point Sources463,369920,49438,18154,699977,386251,840
All sources6,156,9392,235,530585,7182,725,9741,098,8681,397,515

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