{"id":261891,"date":"2026-04-22T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:40:14","slug":"dfw-ranks-ninth-for-ozone-pollution-as-dallas-weighs-costly-shingle-plant-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261891\/","title":{"rendered":"DFW ranks ninth for ozone pollution as Dallas weighs costly shingle\u2011plant closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Earth Day, the American Lung Association\u2019s State of the Air report placed Dallas\u2013Fort Worth ninth\u2011worst in the nation for ozone pollution. At the Dallas City Council, members debated whether to close two long\u2011criticized shingle plants tied to air\u2011quality concerns. City leaders warned that shutting down the Tamko facility alone could cost hundreds of millions of dollars \u2014 a price they called unrealistic \u2014 while others argued that decades of redlining and industrial zoning continue to burden nearby neighborhoods and that funds should be redirected to documented community needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Earth Day, the American Lung Association\u2019s State of the Air report placed Dallas\u2013Fort Worth ninth\u2011worst in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[98045,2347,102,105,104,103,98044,98046],"class_list":{"0":"post-261891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-american-lung-association","9":"tag-city-leaders","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-city-council","12":"tag-dallas-headlines","13":"tag-dallas-news","14":"tag-ozone-pollution","15":"tag-quality-concerns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}