BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — A new legislative task force is looking into ways the state and industry can better monitor air pollution.
The Community Air Monitoring and Notification Task Force was put together as a way for industry and advocacy groups to come together to talk about different methods and the cost of how to track any pollutants that are released into the air across communities in Louisiana.
Legislation recently passed that put limitations on local community monitoring of air pollutants. Groups like the Louisiana Environmental Action Network have invested in vehicles that travel along the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana to collect air samples. The newly passed law, backed by industry leaders, states that the community monitors must be Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality standards.
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The task force was formed with the LDEQ …