This summer there was an uptick in complaints of cruise ships polluting the air in Southeast Alaska. The state’s air quality standards for cruise ships are based on the opacity of plumes from the smokestacks of the ships. In other words, how thick and cloudy the smoke is coming from the ship.
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State regulators publish draft documents to address Fairbanks’ bad air
State Air Quality Division Director Denise Koch said it’s early in the process. She wants her agency to be transparent, and for borough residents to participate and own the final plan.
Citizen scientists monitor North Pole air
North Pole routinely violates federal air quality standards during the winter months. Jeanne Olson says a monitor on her property once registered a fine particulate level that was more than seven times the EPA threshold of 35 micrograms per cubic meter.
Update: Mendenhall Valley air emergency lifted
An air quality monitor reported a spike in harmful fine particulate matter in the Mendenhall Valley around 1 a.m. Saturday.
Paris Bans Some Cars For A Day To Battle Smog
According to one company that measures air quality, the French capital last week briefly dethroned New Delhi and Beijing as the world’s most polluted city.
Denali air still pristine, with a few specks
Fairbanks’s air turns bitter every winter as we fill it with woodsmoke and other things, but just down the road Denali National Park has the clearest air measured among America’s monitored national parks.
Employee complaints, tests flag air quality in state-leased office building
Up to 160 employees work in the Bill Ray Center, where air quality tests show higher than normal levels of carbon dioxide associated with “headaches, sleepiness and stagnant, stale, stuffy air.”