Air quality better than last year, but Connecticut suit of midwestern states should continue
Last month the CT Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released its report on the state of Connecticut’s environment. The report tracked the number of unhealthy air days there were in Connecticut last year. There were 17 bad air days, meaning that for over two weeks during the hot summer months Connecticut’s air was burdened with ground level ozone.
As bad as 17 days of unhealthy are, last year the air in Connecticut was better than most years because the pandemic caused traffic and businesses to shut-down for much of that year. The shut-down lessened the air pollution which when mixed with sunlight causes ground level ozone to form. In some past summers, Connecticut has had almost a month of unhealthy air days.