EPA Ignoring Health Threat of Smog

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slated to announce that Denver metro air is healthy, despite over 40 readings so far this year of unhealthy levels of smog, or ozone pollution, throughout the metro area.

This is a dangerous and misleading proclamation for the EPA to make. Smog is threatening children and communities throughout the Denver metro area, a fact the EPA seems to be covering up. Despite unhealthy levels, the EPA is proposing to defer designating the Denver metro area as nonattainment for ozone. The Clean Air Act, however, prohibits the EPA from doing this when ozone levels rise to unhealthy levels.

Check out the full post at the Denver Ozone blog. Sadly, it seems we need a nonattainment designation to gain recognition that there is a serious health problem and to secure the tools to fix this problem. A nonattainment designation would do just that and Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action aims to make that happen.