States Fear Congress’ Boost For Air Monitoring May Exacerbate Funding Gap

Correction Appended State and local air agency officials are raising concerns about how an additional $50 million in one-time funding that Congress provided to EPA to help states bolster air quality monitoring could exacerbate an existing funding gap between their monitoring obligations and funding needs. EPA “might have gotten ahead of itself,” Jason Howanitz, a senior air pollution control engineer for the Jefferson County, AL, Department of Health, warned EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) meeting Sept. 13,...