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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flare and black smoke are seen from a chemical plant from Texas Highway 225 Thursday, March 21, 2024 in Deer Park. (Yi-Chin ...

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The Air Quality Index, or AQI, is an air quality alert system maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

One way car manufacturers can reduce their vehicles' harmful emissions is through particulate matter filters. Particulate matter refers to the most common and harmful mixture of pollutant chemicals ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new rule on Wednesday to significantly reduce the level of air pollution known as particulate matter (PM) by updating the national air-quality standards ...

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TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Twelve Texas counties have recently exceeded federal air quality ...

In this file photo, former Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Sec. Chuck Carr Brown poses next to the agency's mobile air monitoring units. The officials move them around the state to ...