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Clear the Air press kit.

Quick-reference facts, story angles, and quotable lines for any reporter or HVAC trade publication writing about Clear the Air, Mike Stom's NASA-to-HVAC story, or Jason Stom's decades of South Houston field experience.

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Quick facts

Company Clear the Air Cooling & Heating, LLC
Founded 1990 (35 years in business)
Founder Mike Stom (in memoriam, 2012). Former NASA Space Program engineer.
Owner / CEO Jason Stom (since 2006)
Headquarters 1918 County Road 130, Pearland, TX 77581
License Texas TACLA32678 (verifiable on TDLR)
Service area 40 cities across South Houston (Pearland HQ; Pearland, Friendswood, League City, Clear Lake, Alvin, Houston south side, Galveston, and 33 more)
Reviews 1,862+ Google reviews · 4.9 average rating
Crew In-house techs and install crews; no subcontracted installs
Phone 281-992-7866 (24/7 emergency dispatch)
Press contact Use the contact form at cleartheairac.com/contact and tag the message as Press.

Story angles

NASA-to-HVAC family lineage

Mike Stom worked on life-support systems and crew trainers for the NASA Space Program in the 1970s and 80s before founding Clear the Air in 1990. The same thermal-systems discipline now runs through the company in his son Jason's hands. Strong angle for: human-interest features, Apollo-anniversary tie-ins, family-business succession profiles.

35 years of independent family ownership

Clear the Air has operated as a family-owned HVAC company in Pearland for 35 years, through the R-22 refrigerant phaseout, the move to inverter equipment, and major shifts in how homeowners find and hire contractors. Strong angle for: small-business longevity, trade-skills retention, family-business succession.

Houston heat resilience expert

Jason Stom has run Houston-area HVAC through Hurricane Harvey (2017), Winter Storm Uri (2021), and 13 separate 100°F+ summers. Strong angle for: climate-change-and-housing reporting, hurricane-prep features, energy-grid stress coverage, residential-cooling decisions in extreme weather.

Quotable lines on the record

All quotes are attributable to Jason Stom, Owner, Clear the Air Cooling & Heating. Cleared for publication; please attribute and link to cleartheairac.com.

"Houston is a 75°F dewpoint city for 5 months of the year. Equipment that's even slightly oversized never runs long enough to wring water out of the air. Right-sizing matters more here than in any drier climate."
"The best defense a homeowner has is a TDLR license check, two written quotes, and a Manual J load calculation on file before signing anything."
"R-22 is gone. Reclaimed R-22 runs $100 to $175 per pound in 2026. Any major repair on an R-22 system should be a replacement conversation, not another year of patches."

Press history

Six independent trade-publication features. Full archive with images and pull-quotes lives at cleartheairac.com/press.

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