From: Los Angeles Times
The first
permanent air quality monitor near a Southern California freeway has
detected elevated pollution levels, a finding that will increase
pressure on state and local officials to address health risks facing
nearly 1 million people in the region living near busy transportation
corridors. Readings from a new monitoring station 30 feet from
Interstate 5 in Anaheim show concentrations of nitrogen dioxide air
pollution that are 60% higher than the region as a whole, the South
Coast Air Quality Management District said. The measurements were
collected under new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules that
require air quality monitoring along the nation's busiest roadways.
Monitoring...
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