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Wood County is among eleven West Virginia counties whose air quality must
improve.
Wood and ten other West Virginia counties are among 474 counties in 31 states
that have been told by the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop new
pollution controls because the air in those areas does not meet air quality
standards.
Facilities in those counties have failed to meet federal standards for
smog-causing ozone.
John Benedict, director of the state Department of Environmental Protection's
Division of Air Quality, says the counties have about five years to bring
themselves into compliance.
West Virginia's other targeted counties include Kanawha, Putnam, Cabell, Wayne,
Hancock, Brooke, Marshall, Ohio, Berkeley and Jefferson.
Most of West Virginia's targeted counties must meet the rules by June 2009.
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