Report It!
Experiencing an obnoxious smell? Dealing with constant dust in the air? Battling physical symptoms like coughing, sneezing, headaches or nausea?
TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) is the state agency in
charge of protecting air quality. You should report health and environmental issues you believe are stemming from the heavy industry around us. Even if TCEQ fails to take action, our complaints are catalogued. That can matter later.
Quick tip: If you are feeling symptoms, check out our sensors at PurpleAir.com. If the numbers are higher when you feel effects, it's likely air quality. Start a log.
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 late summer (or to the end of 2026) 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.
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