Wednesday, March 12, 2008
News EPA to change air quality standards
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:03 PM
After initially scheduling a press conference earlier this afternoon, the federal environmental agency pushed back the time to 6 p.m. The announcement, which would be one of President George W. Bush's final environmental decisions, would specify the new standard cities and counties would have to meet in regard to the amount of ground-level ozone. That's the nasty stuff that's emitted from cars, trucks, factory smokestacks and electric utilities. Metro Atlanta is notorious for its poor air quality.
Word coming from sources is that the new standard will be .075 parts of ozone for every million parts of air, or ppm. The current standard is .08 ppm.
The manufacturing lobby doesn't like the sound of it and has stressed that a stringent standard would result in astronomical financial losses if required to comply with the measure. Proponents of the change, such as health care professionals and environmentalists, say the cost of living with filthy oxygen is much more expensive than living a little greener. What are some of the best ways to improve Atlanta's air quality? Use public transit or look into telework programs -- the Clean Air Campaign will pay you -- and push for alternative energy sources.
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