Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Air Pollution Fight Abandoned?


Ontario's environmental commissioner says the province appears to be abandoning efforts to combat air pollution.

Gord Miller says that pollution is responsible for 27-hundred premature deaths and thousands of hospital visits every year.

Miller says the Ministry of the Environment has disbanded its transboundary air unit, stopped holding shared-air summits after 2007 and is no longer engaging the EPA in the United States.