Environmental group aims to save the sky
Arizona Republic
08/06/07
An environmental advocacy group has put the sky up for ‘adoption’ to press the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for tougher smog standards. ‘Adopt the Sky’ is an online petition asking the EPA to approve stricter ozone pollution standards. The site then assigns signers a patch of polluted sky to symbolically adopt as their own. As of Friday, 336 miles of Arizona sky had been adopted. Ozone, a colorless, odorless gas, is at dangerous levels in metropolitan Phoenix. The sponsor, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Earthjustice, hopes to have 50,000 signatures by Oct. 9...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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08/06/07
An environmental advocacy group has put the sky up for ‘adoption’ to press the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for tougher smog standards. ‘Adopt the Sky’ is an online petition asking the EPA to approve stricter ozone pollution standards. The site then assigns signers a patch of polluted sky to symbolically adopt as their own. As of Friday, 336 miles of Arizona sky had been adopted. Ozone, a colorless, odorless gas, is at dangerous levels in metropolitan Phoenix. The sponsor, the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Earthjustice, hopes to have 50,000 signatures by Oct. 9...
http://tinyurl.com/yv28gc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Environmental+Protection+Agency
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