ENVIRONMENTALISTS WARN AGAINST REDUCING AIR POLLUTION MONITORS

The National Park Service (NPS) will likely have to reduce the amount of monitoring it conducts at some of its sites due to budget cuts, a move that environmentalists say could have serious implications for the park service's ability to assess the air quality impacts of dozens of planned new power plants near the parks. Speaking at an EPA Office of Air & Radiation workshop earlier this month, the park service's Chris Shaver said that in parks where there have...