Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
<Alan.Huntley@c...> wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> What country? About the only thing Vermont is downwind of is 
Quebec! And, I hate to tell ya, buddy, but the jet stream doesn't 
flow that way!
> 
> I lived in central Vermont for 18 years...Vermont has no air 
pollution or water pollution. Yes, it does receive its fair share of 
acid rain, but no more than just about anywhere else in the US. 
Better get your facts straight before bashing my home state!

You should get YOUR facts straight.  Weather systems in the US move 
from southwest to northeast.    Vermont receives substantial air 
pollution from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, etc.  In fact 
on January 8 2002 Attorney General Sorrel of Vermont sued the EPA for 
threatening to weaken rules that would have reduced efforts to curb 
SO2 and NOx pollution from those states.

Also, in 1997 Vermont was one of 8 states, all in the northeast, 
which petitioned the EPA to create stricter rules against low 
altitude transport of ozone.  Smog, mostly from NY is a big problem 
in parts of VT, and unlike bbenzene pollution, which is high only in 
a few urban pockets in Vt, ozone is high everywhere, indicating an 
out-of-state origin. 

Furthermore wet sulfate deposition in southern Vermont is 40 kg/ha, 
which is twice the maximum level considered sustainable by the EPA's 
already relaxed standards.