County Improves Its Clean Air Compliance
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From Times Wire Reports
For the first time since monitoring began in 1971, Santa Barbara County may finish the year without violating federal clean air rules.
It still does not meet stricter California standards, which it has violated six times in 2001. But the county is poised to come off the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of areas noted for “serious” noncompliance with federal ozone standards.
“Thirteen years ago, there were 40 incidents in which we exceeded the state standards, and this past year there were six,” pollution control director Doug Allard said.
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