Difficult, but not Impossible

The Denver Post weighed in today on Denver's ozone pollution, urging the Regional Air Quality Council to, "take an aggressive stance on pursuing reductions of emissions that combine to make ground-level ozone."

The editorial follows on the heels of Governor Bill Ritter calling on the Council to "immediately develop and propose additional measures to further reduce ambient ozone concentrations to assure compliance with the national standard."

Could we be any closer to a mandate?

The Regional Air Quality Council is set to meet this Thursday, August 2nd. In light of the Governor's call to action and mounting public pressure to clean up Denver's ozone, we hope they come up with a substantive gameplan to tackle this problem at the meeting.

True, reducing ozone pollution in the Denver metro area may be difficult and the Council faces a tough task. But as the Denver Post notes:

While we don't want to see businesses unfairly punished, there needs to be some realization by both industry and government that this is a growing problem that needs to be addressed. And real progress on the issue is going to include some hard, and perhaps expensive, choices.

What's more, the Council is truly empowered by citizens this time around. This summer has been a recipe for unhealthy ozone pollution, but it's given us the ingredients to do more than ever to keep ozone in check and the Denver metro area safe. Let's get cookin'.