Pollution

== Background ==
* Pollution at Wikipedia
==Insights==
In September, 2006, Pennsylvania is getting closer to adopting new, more strict pollution standards for cars. The new requirements would put the state close to those adopted by California. Governor Rendell says he supports measures that would make cars cleaner.
==Links==
===Media===
* Pittsburgh gets poor air quality ranking Area continues to have bad traffic congestion, June 26, 2006, by David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh residents preparing to burst out the door for a jog or bike ride might want to consider the latest warning from Men's Health magazine. The July/August edition now on newsstands says Pittsburgh earns an F and ranks 98 among 100 American cities for poor air quality."
==Air Pollution==
* Continuous_Opacity_Monitors are deployed in Allegheny County in November, 2006
== Noise Pollution==
* see Hearing Protection
==Details==
===Air quality chief to step down===
:By The Tribune-Review, Sunday, February 10, 2008
Roger Westman, the director of Allegheny County Health Department's Air Quality Program, said on Saturday that he has decided to retire because the department no longer had "an appropriate role for me."
"I was presented with an unacceptable situation and decided to retire," Westman said on Saturday
Westman has been director of the program for the past 12 years and with the air quality program for 34 years. He said his retirement is effective Feb. 27.
County Chief Executive Dan Onorato is exploring handing air pollution enforcement to the state, which oversees air quality in every Pennsylvania county except Allegheny and Philadelphia. The move is a response to complaints that the county too slowly issues permits for industry development, county spokesman Kevin Evanto said.
However some environmental groups oppose giving air quality enforcement to the state, saying the county needs a strong, active local air quality agency to devise and implement air quality regulations.