The airport, the second largest industrial smog source in the Los Angeles area, currently supports about 1,000 flights each day, and a major expansion project is in the works.
Topics include photochemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics important to the chemistry of the atmosphere; stratospheric ozone depletion; oxidation chemistry of the troposphere; photochemical smog; aerosol chemistry; sources and sinks of greenhouse gases.
Its creation owes a debt to an unlikely source: smog.
This information, it stated has "provided important underlying data to help understand the sources of smog".
The smokestack controls will reduce both soot and nitrogen oxides, major sources of smog and acid rain.
The main sources of smog, or ground-level ozone, are emissions from automobiles, power plants and factories.
In August, China's upper legislative body passed a law that will restrict several sources of smog and make information about environmental conditions more readily available to the public.
On Thursday, newly elected New York Attorney General Letitia James cried foul, filing a lawsuit arguing the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by "failing to require any further control of power plants and other sources of smog pollution in states upwind" of her state.
Although auto tailpipes have historically been a major source of smog, the auto industry said that it had largely dealt with that issue.
It would reduce urban pollution, however, by shifting the source of smog from car exhaust pipes to power plants, which are often located outside cities.
