EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality Standards for Sulfur Dioxide /New standard to protect millions of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens
Release date: 11/17/2009
"Short-term exposures to peak SO2 levels can have significant health effects – especially for children and the elderly – and leave our families and taxpayers saddled with high health care costs," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "We’re strengthening clean air standards, stepping up monitoring and reporting in communities most in need, and providing the American people with protections they rightly deserve."
EPA is taking comment on a proposal to establish a new national one-hour SO2 standard, between 50 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). This standard is designed to protect against short-term exposures ranging from five minutes to 24 hours. Because the revised standards would be more protective, EPA is proposing to revoke the current 24-hour and annual SO2 health standards.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/F4DCB340A6D523608525767100770756
Read the LA DEQ 2009 Report - St Bernard Air Monitoring Project and view the ambient air monitoring site data in St Bernard Parish at DEQ's website: use the right hand 'onair' current AQI link and "site data" selection for Meraux, Chalmette High and Chalmette Vista.
http://www.deq.state.la.us/portal/
http://www.deq.state.la.us/portal/tabid/2831/Default.aspx
CCAM will host a DEQ presentation on air monitoring in St Bernard Parish in January 2010.
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