With a Little Nudge, the City Stepped Up and Resolved the Roadblocks 

An individual request and multiple emails didn't do the trick, but with this video and a citizen call to action, the City responded. They met with TCEQ and the landowner, and together, worked out issues to move the location of our missing air quality monitor across the street. It'll probably take until February to build out the site and get the monitor up and running. But that's super important. The monitor collects the only data that can be used to take action when industry exceeds safe air standards. It's especially important to start now, because TCEQ won't consider the data valid until three years of readings are collected. Hopefully, in the years ahead, when lower PM 2.5 caps are finally implemented, Ellis County will be properly evaluated ... and not excluded from nonattainment plans if area PM 2.5 values exceed the cap.