A local agency and the state of Texas say most of San Antonio's pollution drifts in from other states and even Mexico. The EPA disagrees.
Despite local efforts to reduce airborne pollution in recent years, San Antonio’s air quality hasn’t improved, and stricter federal regulations are about to be triggered because of it.
The EPA will likely hear similar entreaties on Monday morning, when it hosts a virtual hearing regarding its proposed action to reclassify the status of Bexar County’s air quality. Officials from AACOG and the city will be in attendance. For many years, San Antonio was one of the few large cities that met national air quality standards — until those standards were tightened in 2015. The region was given until 2018 to lower its ground-level ozone to 70 ppb or below; that deadline was pushed back to 2020, but to no avail.
As a doctor who specializes in treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, Gonzalez said she sees how San Antonio’s poor air quality affects residents on a daily basis. Pollutants like ground-level ozone can“Poor air quality means there’s going to be more days where the air is going to be at a point to where it’s going to flare up [my patient’s] symptoms,” she said.
Businesses will have to prepare and adjust for the nonattainment designation, which could increase operating costs and squeeze profit margins, straining already stressed business owners, said the chamber’s Perez.
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