On UN holiday International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, KGUN 9 takes a look at how Tucson ranks among Western metropolitan cities.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Despite being the second largest city in Arizona, Tucson maintains what is considered"good" air quality—or having low pollution—for the majority of the year.
“We do a pretty good job of promoting alternate modes," she said, referencing the 1989 Clean Air Program that encourages people to reduce their vehicle emissions. In the same MAP data, Tucson tied with Albuquerque for fourth place among 12 metropolitan cities in the Western part of the U.S.Spikes in pollution happen more so in the summertime when the high temperatures raise ozone levels, but Tucson rarely enters the red zone unless a dust storm blows in.
“So we will have better data on kind of the localized air pollution and how different neighborhoods vary. Because if you just look at Eastern Pima County, and you look at the 16 monitors we have, it’s somewhat of a representative sample," Shepp said.
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