Wisconsin on EPA's dirty-air list
WASHINGTON – The air in hundreds of U.S. counties, including eight in Wisconsin, is too dirty to breathe, the government said Wednesday as it ordered a multibillion-dollar expansion of efforts to clean up smog in cities and towns nationwide.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it was tightening the amount of ozone, commonly known as smog, that will be allowed in the air. But the lower standard still falls short of what most health experts say is needed to significantly reduce heart and asthma attacks from breathing smog-clogged air.
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson called the new limits „the most stringent standards ever,“ and he said they will require 345 counties – out of more than 700 that are monitored – to make air quality improvements because they now have dirtier air than is healthy to breathe.
In Wisconsin, they include Door, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and Sheboygan counties.
Mar 13, 2008 at 2:59 a.m.
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Huh. This is the same EPA administrator who late last year (illegally and against the advice of the EPA's own scientific panel) denied California and sixteen other states a waiver to institute even stricter emission controls... not sure what to make of this.
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