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The state environmental agency wants federal regulators to discount 2023-2025 Macon air pollution readings blamed on Canadian wildfire smoke…
The state agency's draft document seeks to attribute elevated fine-particle pollution readings in Augusta to Canadian wildfire smoke rather than local sources…
The request could keep smoke from controlled burns from counting against the Columbus area's compliance with the federal fine-particle pollution standard.
Georgia's environmental protection agency is preparing documentation tying a PM2.5 pollution spike at an Augusta monitor to nearby forestry burns…
The state environmental agency is preparing to argue that a February 2025 pollution reading in Augusta should not count against the area's air quality record because it came…
Georgia's environmental regulator has proposed blaming elevated fine-particle pollution at an Augusta monitor on smoke from permitted burning, a finding that could affect how the reading counts toward…
State environmental regulators are documenting that widespread prescribed burning, not other pollution sources, may explain a fine-particle air quality exceedance recorded at an Augusta monitor last year.
A draft state filing attributes a February 2025 spike in fine-particle pollution at an Augusta monitor to smoke from nearby prescribed and forestry fires.
Georgia's environmental agency says smoke from dozens of permitted burns near Augusta, not routine pollution, caused a fine-particle air quality exceedance recorded in February 2025.
Georgia's environmental agency has drafted a case attributing a February 2025 air quality exceedance at an Augusta monitor to smoke from prescribed and silviculture fires…
A draft state notice attributes a February 2025 spike in fine-particle pollution at an Augusta monitor to smoke from prescribed and silviculture burns…
State air regulators are moving to explain a January air quality exceedance at an Augusta monitor as smoke from planned burns rather than ordinary pollution.
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