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In article <51905@seismo.CSS.GOV>, stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
|> 
|> Denver has the second smogiest air in the nation behind LA.  I don't
|> know the factors contributing to that, however.  I've never been to Denver.
|> (People have this clean image of Colorado, but Denver is smogier than
|> Pittsburg, NYC, DC, etc.)
|> 
|>
Denver's air quality has improved dramatically in the
last 10 years.  (Actually the entire front range).
You could say they are the model for high altitude air pollution
control.

Mexico City is trying to implement some of the things they have
done.

Things are still not great,  but a couple of years ago, driving
into Denver from the north, I saw a beautiful peak looming right
over the downtown.  For a few seconds I was very confused, but
then I realized it was Pikes Peak.  That was the first time in
my lifetime of living in Colorado that I had been able to see that
peak from that angle from that location.  This was primarily
due to the decrease in the air pollution.

Unfortunately the federal government is about to implement new
regulations that will cost a lot more and do very little when
there are still a few more less expensive ways to improve more.

It will still not cost all that much though.  $20 a year is not
too much to pay for cleaner air, I just wish the Feds would let
Colorado do the job in the most cost efficient manner.

Kevin Knappmiller
Solar Lab
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO  80523
(303)491-8215
kk881595@longs.lance.colostate.edu