[verona-road-justice-coalition:20] American Lung Association report

[madpharm]

Yesterday the American Lung Association reported that six in 10
Americans breath unhealthy air. The Lung Assoc. lists Dane County as
an F (more than 10 days of very unhealthy air per year) for particle
pollution. One can only wonder how many days those of us living close
to Verona Road experience unhealthy air from particle pollution. We
need to get those agencies responsible for clean air such as Federal
EPA and State DNR interested in investigation our concerns.

Here is the link to Dane County's numbers.

http://www.stateoftheair.org/2010/states/wisconsin/dane-55025.html

[Susan De Vos]

The Cap Times has a little summary of the report that is also worth a read: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/environment/article_30aa1a7a-5389-11df-b61c-001cc4c03286.html

In part, it says: 

The latest clean air report from the American Lung Association gave Dane County a 'C' for ozone, an improvement over the 'F' received in the previous study, but fine particle pollution gets an 'F', the same grade from the last study.

It also quotes Lisa MacKinnon of the Dane County Clean Air Coalition as saying

Dane County's air quality has been improving over the last few years and currently meets state and federal standards

and

We all need to step up our actions for healthier air," MacKinnon said. "2010 will be a critical year for Dane County because the EPA is getting ready to create even more strict public health standards for both ozone and fine particle pollution.

-- 
Susan De Vos
ma...@tds.net
Madison Area Bus Advocates 
http://www.busadvocates.org