Mexico's Environment Secretariat Plans Six-Year Strategy to Improve Air Quality

摘要

Mexico plans to tighten regulations and controls on emissions in a four-pronged attempt to improve air quality by 2019, according to the country's top air quality official. Ana Maria Contreras, air quality manager in the Environment Secretariat (Semarnat), told BNA June 19 the initiatives aim to improve air quality in the sprawling megalopolis of Mexico City and other urban areas by the end of President Enrique Pena Nieto's six-year term, which began in December 2012. Contreras added that Mexico aims to have an air quality management program and air quality index fully operational in the medium term. She disputed environmental advocates' claims that the country's air quality is worsening, saying key pollutant concentrations meet interim guidelines of the World Health Organization.