Take Action: Individual
Actions
Ground-level
ozone pollution is a problem in our area. You can be part of the
solution.
Most
newer cars only need 30 seconds of idling to warm up in the
morning, even in winter. Longer than that is a waste of
fuel and causes unneeded wear and tear on your engine.
The best way to warm up your car is to drive it at moderate
speeds.
Why take
action now? The U.S. Environmental Protect Agency has identified
the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia (Berkeley and Jefferson
Counties) as a potential "non-attainment" area for emissions that
often act as precursors to the formation of ground-level ozone.
In response, the governments of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties
and the City of Martinsburg, along with the West Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality, entered into a voluntary agreement with
EPA to reduce ground-level ozone pollution and improve local air
quality in a proactive manner.
You can
be part of this proactive effort to improve the air we breathe
in the Eastern Panhandle simply by modifying certain individual
behaviors, especially on Air Quality Action Days. Individual behavior
really does help reduce air pollution - even seemingly small individual
acts rapidly add up to improve the air we breathe. So, do your
share to clean the air and breathe easy knowing your actions make
a difference.
Would you
like to receive email notification when an air quality alert has
been forecasted for the region? Click on the link below
to register online or to download a PDF form to mail in.
Register
Online
Download
PDF Version
Thank you
for your support to the program, now it's time to
get started!
How much
do you already know about how your actions can improve air quality?
Take our online Air
Quality Improvement Quiz, created by the federally collaborative
education program, It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air. Then click on
the links to the left to learn even more tips for reducing ground-level
ozone pollution - on Air Quality Action Days and every day!
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