An independent board tasked with improving Colorado’s air quality believes the state will fall short of meeting an Environmental Protection Agency requirement to lower toxic air pollution by 2024, …
An independent board tasked with improving Colorado’s air quality believes the state will fall short of meeting an Environmental Protection Agency requirement to lower toxic air pollution by 2024, but will be able to reach an older, more lax emissions-reduction target three years later.
“If we fail to act, it costs us time. It costs us additional requirements,” said Danny Katz, executive director of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. “This is a really pivotal moment. We can’t wait another few years to act.” First, it needs to reach a standard adopted in 2008 requiring the reduction of ozone emissions to 75 parts per billion annually by 2027, and state air quality modeling indicates that will happen. Second, Colorado needs to reach a stricter standard set in 2015 of reducing ozone emissions even earlier, to 70 parts per billion by 2024.
Colorado needs to reduce its emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds because those substances combine on hot, sunny days to form a chemical reaction that creates ground-level ozone. That ozone causes smog that affects people’s respiratory systems, making it harder to breathe and complicating other pre-existing health conditions such as asthma.
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