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Article: POLLUTION LEVELS DROP: Yellowstone Valley's sulfur dioxide amounts fall in 2003
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- The Billings Gazette
- Article date:
- April 6, 2004
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Sulfur dioxide pollution from Yellowstone Valley's major industries dropped 10 percent last year to a near-record low.
Jim Hughes, an environmental specialist with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, said preliminary annual reports from the seven industrial showed they pumped 13,610 tons of sulfur dioxide into the air in 2003, down from 15,200 tons in 2002.
The last time sulfur dioxide pollution was that low was in 1999.
"It's moving in the right direction," Hughes said of the valley's longtime major air pollutant.
Sulfur dioxide is formed by burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil. The gas can cause breathing problems and may damage lungs and is an ingredient of acid rain.
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