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EPA GRANT PROMOTES REGIONAL APPROACH TO INTERSTATE ENERGY, AIR QUALITY PROBLEMS

Release Date: 09/28/2001
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Note to Correspondents

As part of EPA’s ongoing effort to support the President’s energy plan, the Agency has awarded $65,000 to the Ozone Transport Commission to investigate innovative ways of dealing with regional air quality problems, including ground-level ozone (smog), fine particulate matter, regional haze (visibility), global warming gases, air toxics, and acid rain.

The Ozone Transport Commission was created by Congress in the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act to coordinate smog control strategies in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. It includes a coalition of 12 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia plus
Washington, D.C.

The work will build on the commission’s work, such as evaluating member state initiatives for clean power generation, as well as developing an initiative to disseminate information on land use practices that minimize air pollution emissions from cars and trucks and other transportation sources. In addition to supporting these current projects, the grant will help the commission investigate ways that energy efficiency projects can lead to improvement in air quality.

EPA expects this project will also benefit states outside the Northeast, many of which are dealing with similar air pollution and energy efficiency issues.

For further technical information, contact Sue Gander at 564-3527 or gander.sue@epa.gov


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