2025 Air Central Texas Awards
Air Central Texas is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Air Central Texas Awards!
The Air Central Texas Awards celebrate the positive contributions of organizations and individuals to regional air quality in Central Texas. Our goal is to recognize the great work happening across the region and to inspire future actions that support the region’s ongoing air quality planning efforts.
Award Categories
The 2025 Air Central Texas award categories include:
- Air Central Texas Outstanding Organization Award - recognizes an activity by an organization that helps reduce local air pollution past year.
- Air Central Texas Media Award - recognizes exceptional media coverage of air quality or air quality issues within the past year.
- Air Central Texas Environmental Education Award - recognizes an individual or organization that has exhibited exceptional leadership in air quality education over the past year.
- Air Aware Student Leadership Award - recognizes a student who has had a significant and lasting impact on Central Texas air quality in their community.
2025 Air Central Texas Awards
The Air Central Texas Awards celebrate the positive contributions of organizations and individuals to regional air quality in Central Texas. Our goal is to recognize the great work happening across the region and to inspire future actions that support the region’s ongoing air quality planning efforts.
This year, the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) recognized Darien Clary, Austin Independent School District (AISD)'s Director of Sustainability with the 2025 Bill Gill Central Texas Air Quality Leadership Award for her work in leading and supporting initiatives that reduce emissions, educate the community and advance clean technologies within the school district.

Review and Selection of Award Recipients
A panel of Clean Air Coalition subcommittee will review each application in late January to select the winners. The winners will be announced on February 25, 2025.
Past Recipients
The 2024 Air Central Texas Awards recognized SPEER, Chikage Windler, CREAM, and Adele Noel. Learn more about past recipients.