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Clean Air Carolina urges EPA to strengthen standards for fine particulates
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Listen to your doctors! Clean Air Carolina, a group of medical health professionals in North Carolina that advocates for sufficient air pollution standards to protect public health, recently sent a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. In the letter, five advisory board members call attention to the Castle Hayne area's already-dangerous ambient levels of fine particulates (PM 2.5), requesting that standards be updated in light of the medical consensus on the dangers of these pollutants:
"On the North Carolina coast, a Titan Cement factory is planned for the town of Castle Hayne in New Hanover County. The cement kiln, mining, and diesel transportation of raw materials and product are expected to emit an additional 160 tons of PM 2.5 yearly to existing ambient levels of PM 2.5. The continuous PM 2.5 monitor presently located across the road from the proposed plant already exceeds PM 2.5 levels which the medical literature consider dangerous to human health, but which generally do not exceed the existing regulatory standards. Tighter standards will better reflect the public health risk in the surrounding community."
Thank you to the doctors at CAC for taking the time to urge action from our government to protect us against industrial emissions!
