EPA School Monitoring Project Seen Driving Air Toxics Program Reforms

摘要

EPA is using lessons learned from its school air toxics monitoring project - including the value of continuous monitoring systems and community involvement - to craft broader reforms across the agency's air toxics program, combining grants and federal rules to tackle local air toxics problems throughout the country.rnAccording to a key EPA air official, the agency's ongoing effort to monitor air quality around schools for toxics has given EPA new ideas for its plan to develop a "consolidated" air toxics program that would try to coordinate agency work on air toxics currently divided among several headquarters offices. The school monitoring program "helped to point out some of the gaps" in the air toxics plan, EPA air official Chet Wayland said in a July 28 interview.