[Green] Anti-Fracking group: Air pollution in Washington County

[Heather Cantino]

This is so helpful, Rebecca. I should have written you in the first place
too! Since there is no longer an Aug. 30 deadline [which they retracted and
then claimed that there hadn't been a deadline but just a date "to
encourage people to submit material" --have you ever heard of a federal
agency denying that the deadline for comments is really a deadline? --
that's the state of our federal agency's competence level these days!], you
could submit something yourself or yourselves -- or add to what I've
written and we can co-sign. If we get something in by the end of September,
I think that's fine, unless they do create a new deadline. Would any of you
be willing and able to flesh this out a bit more? I like the argument that
we don't know enough to add more pollution but I think it might be made a
little stronger with some more data. Anyone able to help - Rebecca? Others?
thanks so much.
It's great to work with you all!
Heather
p.s. I'm not sure my reply will go to the list since I'm not on it, so
please share, Rebecca, if you'd like...Thanks!

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Rebecca Phillips <bennphil at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Heather (and GS folks),
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> I am trying to dig into the data available online, and there is a conflict
> between the map in the article you copied and data from the Ohio EPA, which
> lists Washington County (or at least the air near the two monitors, one on
> upper Fourth Street and one at the Career Center) as in compliance with
> regard to PM 2.5 as of 2016-17. The pollutants for which the monitors found
> us not in compliance were ozone and metals. Here is the link:
>
> http://epa.ohio.gov/Portals/27/ams/sites/A1-SWM_Quickview.pdf
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> A decade earlier, the Mid-Ohio Valley was a non-attainment area for PM
> 2.5, but by 2010, we had met the criteria for three consecutive years. A
> good argument could be made that increased fracking in the region would put
> us in danger of again being a non-attainment area. The Lung Association's
> 2018 State of the Air Report says that no monitoring for particle pollution
> is currently being done. The CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking
> Network shows more modeled than monitored data for the county but indicates
> that PM 2.5 levels have been reduced since the 2005 plan.
>
> https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/DataExplorer/index.html?c=11&i=51&m=-1#/
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> Given this conflicting information, it would seem we do not have enough
> data to justify allowing any increase in pollution levels, given that the
> CDC notes elevated levels of respiratory illness in the county.
> Appendix A 2016-2017 Ohio’s Air Monitoring Network Quick ...
> <http://epa.ohio.gov/Portals/27/ams/sites/A1-SWM_Quickview.pdf>
> epa.ohio.gov
> AQs # County City Site Name Site Address PM 2.5 FRM 2.5 cont. PM 2.5 SPEC
> PM 10-2.5 € 10 10 Cont O 3 SO 2 CO NO 2 and/or NO y Pb/Metals Toxics€(VOC)
> Met€ Other* Appendix A 2016-2017 Ohio’s Air Monitoring Network Quick View,
> Count and Changes
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> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."--
> Cicero
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