{"id":395,"date":"2004-05-07T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/07\/public-service-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:13","slug":"public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/07\/public-service-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this morning&#8217;s usual traffic jam on Mopac, I drove almost the entire distance to work behind an old Mercedes diesel that was billowing huge clouds of noxious bluish smoke.  Having just renewed my car registration, which included a notice to this effect, I recalled that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ, formerly TNRCC) has a &#8220;Smoking Vehicle Program&#8221; whereby, if you provide a vehicle plate number, date of observation, approximate time and location, TCEQ will send a letter to the registered owner encouraging them to repair their vehicle.  (According to the website, it&#8217;s illegal in Texas to operate a vehicle that emits visible smoke for more than 10 consecutive seconds, but this is an advisory rather than an enforcement program.)<\/p>\n<p>You can submit a smoking vehicle report online at:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smoking Vehicle Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnrcc.state.tx.us\/air\/ms\/smokingvehicles.html\">http:\/\/www.tnrcc.state.tx.us\/air\/ms\/smokingvehicles.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try it.  Might not actually do any good, but it&#8217;s still vaguely satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this morning&#8217;s usual traffic jam on Mopac, I drove almost the entire distance to work behind an old Mercedes diesel that was billowing huge clouds of noxious bluish smoke. Having just renewed my car registration, which included a notice to this effect, I recalled that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ, formerly TNRCC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12962,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/12962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}