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looking for more national leadership.”
Mrs. Haskell says that Virginia officials are “working with the Environmental Protection Agency on a process for several states to adopt a regional strategy.”
Shenandoah National Park, 40 miles west of Warrenton, has the highest level of sulfates (pollution produced by acid rain) of any national park in the United States. And officials say conditions are not just limited to the park, but actually get worse farther east, through Fauquier, Rappahannock, Warren, Clarke, Loudoun and Fairfax counties and on into Washington.
Ironically the park is a “Class 1” area, a designation reserved for the cleanest in the nation.
“This is a crisis situation,” says park director William Wade. “This park is probably the worst in the (national park) system as far as air pollution.... We’re talking about quality of life issues anywhere you want to pick in the state.”
Based on data they have been gathering for a decade, park officials, for the first time ever, are trying to stop the proliferation of more pollution sources — chiefly high sulfur coal-burning power plants — even as power companies and other industries are expanding to meet growing needs in the state.
The conflict puts the National Park Service in a tricky position, leaders there say. For a federal agency, the service has been uncharacteristically vocal in trying to do its job — drawing attention to the declining health of the natural re
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