The Environmental Protection Agency needs to do more to curb ozone emissions from heavy polluting states like Pennsylvania that foul the air of neighboring states, regulators from Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut said April 14 at a public hearing in Trenton, N.J. "The EPA has not done its job in addressing upwind states that contribute up to half our ozone pollution," New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Commissioner Bob Martin said at the hearing. The EPA has allowed coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania to turn off emission controls "despite the fact that those emissions significantly contribute to poor ozone quality in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states," he said. "The federal government should be stepping in." Organized by the New Jersey Clean Air Council, an independent advisory body to the NJDEP, the round-table discussion focused on regional approaches to ground-level ozone and sought answers to the problem of transport, the movement of pollutants over long distances.
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