EPA tightens Air Pollution Standards

[falcon]

Read about this this morning in the Lawton paper. Looks like auto emissions testing is on the way to much of OK and other states. Just what we needed, thanks EPA.[:@][:@][:'(]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080313/sc_afp/usenvironmentpollution_080313021352

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it is tightening federal air pollution standards by setting more stringent ozone limits for the first time since 1997.


[/align]"EPA today met its requirements of the Clean Air Act by signing the most stringent eight-hour standard ever for ozone, revising the standards for the first time in more than a decade," the EPA said in a statement.
The rules on smog-forming ozone, a widespread air pollutant, restrict the amount of nitrogen oxides and other compounds that are allowed to be released by power plants, motor vehicle exhaust, industrial facilities and other man-made sources, the EPA said."

[Alsatian]

falcon:

I used to live in Tulsa and then Broken Arrow for many years before I left in 1996 to move south of the Red River. I recall that emissions tests were part of the inspection requirements back in those days, but maybe this was just in the immediate Tulsa area.

[Venator1]

Popes fault.

[burniegoeasily]

I guess I"™ll need to watch my exhaust on my Harley when I"™m ridding Medicine Mound.