Sullivan County Ranks As One Of The Worst Counties In Tennessee For Pollution, According To Website

By: TriCities Staff | TriCities.com
Published: November 19, 2008

A website dedicated to providing information about pollution and air quality ranks Sullivan County as one of the worst counties in the state of Tennessee. Scorecard.org lists Sullivan County as 6th in the state for "All Criteria Of Air Pollutants". It goes on to say Sullivan County is 3rd in Carbon Monoxide concentrations, and 2nd in Lead Quarterly Average Concentration in the air. Gary Mayes with the Sullivan County Health Department and a member of the Ozone Action Partnership says Sullivan County has made a huge effort in cleaning up their air quality. From lowering the speed limit on the interstate through Sullivan County, to working with industry to do their part in lowering emissions. In 2010 the Environmental Protection Agency has implemented stricter air quality standards, something Sullivan County says they are working to meet. As for whether or not people should be concerned about the numbers listed on the website, Mayes says, those numbers could be somewhat outdated. He believes the changes the county has made over the last five years has paid off, and will continue to do so as more and more technology is created to help clean up, what took years to create.
Scorecard.org, says on its website it gets its data from 4-hundred different scientific and governmental agencies.

Sullivan County Ranks As One Of The Worst Counties In Tennessee For Pollution, According To Website

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