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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
Founded 1990 (36 years in business)
Founder Mike Stom (in memoriam). Former NASA Space Program engineer.
Owner 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 2,067+ Google reviews · 4.9 average rating
Crew In-house techs and install crews
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, from the Gemini and Apollo programs through the Space Shuttle era, 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.

36 years of independent family ownership

Clear the Air has operated as a family-owned HVAC company in Pearland for 36 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 twenty years of Houston 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

Five independent trade-publication features. Full archive with summaries lives at cleartheairac.com/press.

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