The Texas Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Program (TxVEMP) is preparing to make grants available for the purchase and installation of Level 2 charging equipment for light-duty zero-emission vehicles in the State of Texas. Eligible Activities Funds may be used for the purchase and installation of new light-duty electric vehicle Level 2 charging equipment. Funding is available statewide for equipment installed: in a public place, workplace, or multi-unit dwelling (i.e. not located at a private, residential dwelling that is not a multi-unit dwelling in Texas); and at a site without existing light-duty electric charging services or to expand the number of vehicles that may be serviced at an
For people with allergies and asthma, sometimes the very air they breathe can be bad for their health. And living in North Texas can mean it is time to buckle up for the fall season of allergens. That’s because a variety of pollutants in our air can aggravate asthma and allergy symptoms, leaving people in the throes of eye itchiness, throat irritation, congestion, and headache, on top of the difficulty of breathing on bad air pollution days. Ground-level ozone is a big contributor to bad air quality. This isn’t the "good" ozone layer found high in the atmosphere that protects us from UV rays of the sun. Ground-level ozone is a pollutant produced when sunlight reacts with the chemical fumes o
