Hearing Set on Plan to Cut NOx Levels
A proposal to stiffen controls on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from industrial plants and motor vehicles will be the subject of public hearings Feb. 26 and 27 in El Monte, the South Coast Air Quality Management District board decided Friday.
Board member Larry Berg, who headed a board NOx task force, recommended next month’s hearings, saying that further NOx reductions are needed to reduce ozone, or smog.
The four-county South Coast basin is the only one in the country that violates the federal health standard for nitrogen dioxide, a lung irritant produced by fuel combustion.
The hearings are expected to help the board decide whether to adopt specific regulations to control NOx from power plants and factories.
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