EPA ready for stricter air quality rules with a look at smog
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12-03-2014, 05:00 AM
EPA ready for stricter air quality rules with a look at smog
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Like a certain Hobbit, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to take a closer look at Smaug. Sorry, smog. The EPA is on a bit of a kick in thinking about cleaner air standards, which makes sense since the winds of change are blowing. Europeans are taking a closer look at diesel emissions and health organizations are understanding just how bad exhausted air can be (think more asthma and cancer).
So, last week, the EPA proposed stronger air quality standards targeting ground-level ozone (or see below), which is also known as smog. The change may seem like a tiny one - adjusting the safe range from 75 parts per billion (ppb) down to 70, 65 or 60 ppb. The 75 ppb level was set in 2008 and the agency is supposed to reevaluate this limit every five years and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement that a lower level will bring the "ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science" and "will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at-risk." Some Republicans, like James Inhofe (Senator from Oklahoma), unsurprisingly, have promised to block the EPA's new rule.
Historically, the worst part of the country for smog is in the South Coast Air Basin, as you can see on the California Air Resources Board website. In fact, the Fresno Bee says that, "California is the center of the US ozone problem." If you're in the US, you can learn more about your own air quality today by going to AirNow.gov. As of this writing, the only elevated danger zone expected tomorrow is in the Cascade foothills of east King-Pierce counties in Eastern Washington state. Perhaps people living there should start taking an anti-cholesterol drug.Continue reading EPA ready for stricter air quality rules with a look at smog
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Like a certain Hobbit, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to take a closer look at Smaug. Sorry, smog. The EPA is on a bit of a kick in thinking about cleaner air standards, which makes sense since the winds of change are blowing. Europeans are taking a closer look at diesel emissions and health organizations are understanding just how bad exhausted air can be (think more asthma and cancer).
So, last week, the EPA proposed stronger air quality standards targeting ground-level ozone (or see below), which is also known as smog. The change may seem like a tiny one - adjusting the safe range from 75 parts per billion (ppb) down to 70, 65 or 60 ppb. The 75 ppb level was set in 2008 and the agency is supposed to reevaluate this limit every five years and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement that a lower level will bring the "ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science" and "will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at-risk." Some Republicans, like James Inhofe (Senator from Oklahoma), unsurprisingly, have promised to block the EPA's new rule.
Historically, the worst part of the country for smog is in the South Coast Air Basin, as you can see on the California Air Resources Board website. In fact, the Fresno Bee says that, "California is the center of the US ozone problem." If you're in the US, you can learn more about your own air quality today by going to AirNow.gov. As of this writing, the only elevated danger zone expected tomorrow is in the Cascade foothills of east King-Pierce counties in Eastern Washington state. Perhaps people living there should start taking an anti-cholesterol drug.Continue reading EPA ready for stricter air quality rules with a look at smog
EPA ready for stricter air quality rules with a look at smog originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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