Opinion: What does money smell like? Flaring FacebookTwitterEmail Corey Williams, research and policy director for Air Alliance Houston, installs an air monitor Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, at San Pedro Episcopal Church in Pasadena. WIlliams said that TCEQ's air monitoring network isn't necessarily designed with local public health in mind, which is why they sought to install the monitor near two schools.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Pasadena flaring Regarding “Pasadena plays defense on pollution,” (A1, Feb. 3): In the 1960s, we lived near Hobby Airport, where we could see the flares from Pasadena. We used to chant, “Pasadena where the air is greenah.” Friends who lived there would retort, “it’s the color and smell of money!”