HOUSTON, TX — Drawing on solid experience and scientific data, Texas contractors persuaded the Texas National Resources Conservation Commission (TNRCC) to withdraw a proposal that would have required a coating on air conditioning condensers. According to Robert Elolf, president of Environmental Air Services, “This coating is supposed to change ground-level ozone to oxygen as the condenser fan draws it through the coil.”
TNRCC’s proposal would have applied not just to Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Beaumont/Port Arthur, and Dallas, but to the entire eastern part of Texas. Most of the industry’s eyebrows went up like mercury in August when the proposal was announced.