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Richmond, YA - The nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) released a new report (August 16), Turning Point, which reveals air pollution is a systemwide challenge for the national parks with one in three parksmore than 150 of the 390 national park units in the National Park System-located in parts of the country where air pollution exceeds federal standards. NPCA’s Turning Point makes the case the national parks are now at a crossroads on air pollution because just as pollution reduction programs implemented over the past two decades are starting to show modest improvements at some parks, the nation is developing new energy sources in ways that threaten to undo years of effort to clean the air in the parks.
“Air pollution in Shenandoah National Park rivals that of many U.S. cities,” said NPCA Virginia Program Manager Catharine Gilliam. “Pollution harming the park comes from sources in Virginia as well as from other states, reducing visibility from the park by more than half. NPCA has been working for years in Virginia to protect parks and people.”
Last summer NPCA filed an administrative appeal of an air pollution permit for a waste coal plant in southwestern Pennsylvania-Green Mountain Energy
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