"It's an important case because it has the potential to greatly increase air pollution," said David G. Hawkins, a director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the leader of Environmental Protection Agency's air pollution division in the Carter administration.
The agency's land pollution division director, Doug Clay, said self-monitoring was reinforced by state regulators who periodically inspect quarries, and he was not aware of any past incidents of groundwater contaminated from construction dirt.
As the head of the air pollution division, she has been behind many of the agency's most controversial new rules – from placing the first limits on greenhouse gases on newly built power plants to the first-ever standard for toxic mercury pollution from burning coal for electricity.
Park Chu Gyu, director of the pollution control division of the environment ministry, said the European Union had set the same schedule of standards for all cars in Europe.
"There's probably a greater risk with coming to altitude and getting sick than any risk from forest fire smoke," said Christopher Dann, public information officer for the state pollution control division.
"We have done our best over the months and years to stay out of the conflict that appears to exist between Mr. Haw and Mr. Anschutz," says Christopher Dann, public information officer for the air pollution control division.
Will Allison, director of the commission's air pollution control division, said "several industry leaders" voluntarily implemented the rules when they were proposed late last year.
For cities around the globe, it's been a year of challenges: worsening air pollution, increasing social divisions, community displacement, housing crises, resource shortages, environmental disasters and street violence – and for some, war and terrorism.
The industrial ruins of the borough also evoke a history of alienation, pollution, and a division of labor.
South of the border, Pennsylvania communities are being swarmed by natural gas drillers who are driving a boom in U.S. energy development -- along with concerns about air and water pollution, health impacts, community division, and declining property values.
