{"id":4149,"date":"2026-10-30T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:16:30","slug":"emissions-exceed-limits-at-refineries-south-of-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/emissions-exceed-limits-at-refineries-south-of-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Emissions Exceed Limits at Refineries South of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides in the refining and petrochemical industrial zone south of Houston, Texas, have consistently exceeded limits, leading to high concentrations of ground-level ozone under sunny conditions; ozone concentrations at multiple monitoring stations have reached unhealthy levels. The areas south of Houston and around Galveston have been placed under a pollution advisory. This region has long been plagued by emissions from the petrochemical industry, and ozone pollution is highly prone to recurring outbreaks during hot, dry, and sunny periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides in the refining and petrochemical industrial zone south of Houston, Texas, have consistently exceeded limits, leading to high concentrations of ground-level ozone under sunny conditions; ozone concentrations at multiple monitoring stations have reached unhealthy levels. The areas south of Houston and around Galveston have been placed under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":17,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}