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Credit Pacific Service Union The smog season ending Tuesday has been one for the record books. During the unseasonably cool, wet summer, metro Atlanta only recorded one day with severely unhealthy air. In 25 years, the only easy-breathing summer like it was in 1994.

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Credit First Service Union For the first time, the region is close to complying with federal standards for ground-level ozone, or smog. But just as metro Atlanta finally appears poised to pass one clean air test, others are on the way.

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Card Credit Mobile Service Starting Wednesday, scientists in 36 cities across the nation, including Atlanta, will begin daily forecasts for particle smog, tiny fragments of soot that are too small to see but can contribute to respiratory and heart problems. Unlike ground-level ozone -- the air pollutant metro Atlantans have been warned to watch every May to September -- particle smog is an all-season hazard.

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Card Credit Discover Service "Because [the particles are] so small, they stay suspended in the environment for a long time," said Michael Chang, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Tech who is one of 10 smog forecasters in Georgia. "They're also small enough that when you breathe them in, they can work through your body's natural defense systems."

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Credit Public Service Union Chang said metro Atlanta is likely to get about 10 particle smog alerts a year. They will be broadcast on highway message boards and on the Clean Air Campaign's Web site, www.cleanaircampaign.com.

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Card Credit Processing Service Beginning next year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will judge Georgia's air by how many polluting particles float in it. It'll be a tough test to pass because of all the soot-emitting diesel trucks on our highways and coal-burning power plants surrounding the metro region.

Center Credit Service Union At least half a dozen areas are likely to fail, including metro Atlanta, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon and Rome. The state will have three years to come up with a plan for reducing particle smog; it will have until at least 2009 to meet EPA's particle smog standards. Scientific understanding of how to reduce particle smog still is a work in progress.

Card Credit Service Wireless Georgia Power, whose electricity-making plants are major sources of soot, estimates it will spend about $2 billion over the next 10 to 12 years to upgrade its plants to comply with the tougher standards.

Credit Security Service Union The particle smog requirements will follow two other air-quality hurdles metro Atlanta faces next year.

Credit Report Service In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will downgrade the air quality in 13 metro Atlanta counties from "serious" to "severe." Drivers might have to buy more expensive gasoline designed to lower polluting emissions, although scientists and state environmental regulators say the fuel might not work here. It was formulated to improve Los Angeles' air quality; the pollutants there are different from what's found in Atlanta's air.

Blogspot Com Christian In addition, some businesses now considered minor polluters, including print shops and bakeries, will have tighter regulations. They could be required to install expensive pollution controls. If the region fails to improve its air quality by 2005, polluting companies could pay more than $50 million in fines.

Christian Counseling Credit In April, the EPA will designate metro areas that don't meet a tough new standard for ground-level ozone. Twenty counties in and around metro Atlanta, plus Macon's Bibb County, Augusta's Richmond County and part of Murray County, are likely to fail.

Credit Federal Service Union Road-building and other transportation plans in these counties will be scrutinized by the EPA with an eye toward reducing pollution from cars and trucks. Drivers in these counties likely will have to get annual car emissions inspections now required in metro Atlanta's core counties.

Credit Monitoring Service Nonetheless, Ron Methier, air protection branch chief for the state Environmental Protection Division, isn't daunted. He said this summer's improved air makes him optimistic about the state's ability to clean its dirty air.

Credit Division Service "The way to clean up the air is to keep pollution from going into it, and we've done that," Methier said. "I'm convinced that there's a downward trend [in air pollution], and it is because of the large, regional approach we've taken."

Card Credit Online Service The state has estimated that since 1999 in metro Atlanta there has been a 9 percent reduction in emissions of nitrogen oxides and a 4 percent cut in volatile organic compounds.

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Card Consolidation Credit When Congress passed the Clean Air Act 33 years ago, scientists still had a lot to learn about what causes polluted air and how it can affect health and the environment. Thirteen years ago, amendments to the act defined Clean Air goals and set what states and metropolitan areas would have to do to meet them. But it wasn't until the 1990s that science caught up to the law.

Credit Free Online Report Now scientists know, for example, that air pollution in Los Angeles differs from metro Atlanta, primarily because of vastly different weather patterns and an abundance of trees here. Scientists also began figuring out that air pollution can drift from one area to another. Coal-fired power plants in Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas and other parts of Georgia contribute to metro Atlanta's smog, and metro Atlanta's smog drifts down to Macon. Regulators realized that air pollution would have to be combated through regional cooperation.

Credit Federal First Service In Georgia, scientists began monitoring ground-level ozone in 1978. Now they know that this ozone, commonly called smog, is created when emissions from cars, trucks, bulldozers, coal-fired power plants and organic compounds from trees mix together and react to heat from the sun. It's the last ingredient -- sunshine -- that makes summer the worst time for smog.

Consumer Credit Service Health officials now can tell us that when asthmatics breathe in too much ground-level ozone, it can bring on an asthma attack. A study conducted in Los Angeles suggests smog actually can cause asthma in children. Smog exacerbates existing respiratory conditions. Even healthy people can have trouble breathing on days when ozone levels are high -- something like suffering a sunburn on the lungs.

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Credit Reporting Service Far less is understood about the health effects of particle smog. Medical researchers say particles can lodge deep in the lungs and move into the bloodstream, causing premature deaths, cardiovascular problems and respiratory illnesses. An internal EPA document recently suggested the federal standard for microscopic soot doesn't go far enough to protect public health.

Cca Credit Division Service Both environmental groups and the industries that will be asked to decrease their soot emissions say the EPA's particle smog alerts are coming too soon -- before scientists really understand the possible health effects.

Credit Free Report Service Chris Hobson, vice president of environmental affairs at Georgia Power, said, "I don't think we know enough yet. Certainly, I don't think we know enough to tell people what we want them to do [when particle smog levels are high]."

Card Credit Customer Discover Environmentalist Brian Hager, director of the Georgia chapter of the Sierra Club, said it is important for metro Atlanta to pay more attention to particle smog, but he also worries the EPA alerts are outpacing research.

Credit Repair Report Service "It's very unclear what anybody is supposed to do with this information," he said.

Credit Legal Repair Service But Dr. Howard Frumkin, chairman of Emory University's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, said it's time for EPA to act. Scientists have been learning about particulate smog for more than half a century, he said, when deaths in London were first linked to large quantities of soot.

Cic Credit Monitoring Service In December 1952, London experienced a killer smog, when fog and black smoke from burning coal was trapped beneath a still, cold air mass. Thousands died; many of the deaths were attributed to heart and respiratory problems.

Ccs Credit Division Service Frumkin said the new EPA alerts will let people know when the air is bad and let them decide about changing their exercise routines or taking public transit to work.

Credit Service Union Worker By Stacy Shelton
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 9/30/2003

Topic: Air Pollution

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