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NC, other states clean air plans ignore most pollution, conservation groups say Derek Lacey, Asheville Citizen Times
UN: Huge changes needed to keep nature, Earth OK
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As North Carolina plans how it will address air quality over the next decade, it s not taking into account the worst polluters or even all the pollutants, conservation groups say, hampering the state s pristine natural areas and leaving its people breathing dirtier air.
North Carolina, along with every other state, is currently putting together implementation plans for the Clean Air Act’s Regional Haze Rule, which requires federal and state authorities to work together to identify and address sources of air pollution in national parks and other areas, a release from the National Parks Conservation Association says.
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Every morning I check the forecasted high and low temperatures in all the places where I have family and friends. I like imagining something about their day by knowing something about their weather. But I didn’t check the air quality index until this last year in September when smoke was closing in on my friends in Eugene and Bend, Oregon, and my sister and her family in Moscow, Idaho. Smoke from wildfires blotted out the sun. Turns out 2020 was the worst year for air quality in Oregon since 1968, when AQI records began.
There are five categories the National Weather Service uses to designate air quality: from green (satisfactory 0-50 AQI; little health risk) or yellow (51-100; risk to some people sensitive to air pollution) through orange (101-150) and red (151-200) to purple (201-300; very unhealthy for everyone) and maroon (301-500; hazardous and a health emergency). On Sept. 13, Eugene’s AQI was 457; on Sept. 12, Bend’s was over 500, off the AQI scale.
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