Lung-damaging smog in Pima County expected to violate stricter EPA rules
Pima County’s air will be in danger of violating federal smog standards under the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposal to tighten the existing emission limits for a polluting compound, ground-level ozone. Seven other Arizona counties probably would join Maricopa on a list of violators if EPA adopts the standards proposed Thursday, agency records show. They are Pinal, Cochise, Coconino, Yuma, Gila, La Paz and Navajo counties.
Their air-quality monitors recorded ozone concentrations from 2006 through 2008 that would violate even the loosest possible standard in the range of limits that EPA proposed. Maricopa County has been in violation of the ozone standards for years.
Read the full article in the Arizona Daily Star
Note: The basing of the F-35 at TIA may contribute to violation of the new EPA limits and/or violate a maintenance agreement the EPA has with Davis-Monthan as the base is located in an area previously designated “nonattainment” for carbon monoxide. See exerpt from a 4/27/09 article about Luke AFB (below) published in the Air Force Times .
“He (John Schell, Peoria’s intergovernmental-affairs director) said the team was concerned about whether pollution from the F-35 would be an issue because Maricopa County is a non-attainment area for failing to meet federal air-quality standards.
The F-35 emits more pollutants than the F-16, Schell added.”
By Tony Davis
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.08.2010
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