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Article: EPA: Five States in Region Must Make Plans to Cut Nitrogen Oxide.
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- September 24, 1998
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CHICAGO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 said five Midwestern States -- Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin -- (along with 17 other States in the eastern half of the country and the District of Columbia) will be required, by September 1999, to submit plans to EPA for cutting emissions of nitrogen oxide, a precursor of ozone (smog). The rule was signed today by EPA Administrator Carol Browner.
The cuts will improve air quality in States east of the Mississippi River by decreasing the transport of ozone across State boundaries.
The States have been given nitrogen oxide budgets which they must meet by ...