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Protecting the air we breathe
What: Plans to reduce toxic air in Louisville
Where: May meeting of the Metro Democratic Club
When: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Time: Dinner at 6 p.m.; program at 6:30 p.m.
Place: Swiss Hall, 719 Lynn Street
Lynn Street runs one way west from Shelby Street to Preston.
The Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District is moving toward adopting new requirements aimed at cleaning the air we breathe by reducing toxic emissions from industries, principally in the western part of the county.
The Metro Democrat Club is please to host an educational forum on this important issue, featuring Art Williams, director of the Air Pollution Control District, who will lead a panel discussing the new requirements.
The proposed requirements – the Strategic Toxic Air Reduction (STAR) Program – focus first on reducing the levels of 18 toxic chemicals that have been proven through extensive air monitoring to exceed the federal health risk goal – a 1 in 1 million risk of developing cancer from lifetime exposure.
The companies that are the largest sources of one of the 18 toxic chemicals – such as butadiene and arsenic – must begin reporting information to the Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District next year. That information will determine whether they exceed the health risk goal. By 2007, those companies must lower their toxic emissions of the 18 chemicals to meet the goal
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