Where Is Mercury Coming From and What Happens Once It’s Here?
Presented by Carl Brown and Don Essig, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
There are a number of Idaho water bodies that have fish advisories for mercury. While contamination concerns for mercury focus primarily on fish and water, air deposition of mercury is the predominant source [...]
Toni Hardesty discusses Air, Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Air Quality and Vegetation
Speakers:
Leonard Herr, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and
Brian Jorgenson, Boise City Forestry Unit
As parts of Idaho struggle with increasing levels of ground-level ozone, the relationship between air quality, and ozone in particular, and Idaho’s vegetation is receiving increased scrutiny. The relationship is two fold: vegetation impacts air quality and air quality impacts [...]
Crop Residue Burning
Presenters: Mary Andersen and Melissa Gibbs, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Over the past year the State of Idaho has made huge strides in the area of smoke management. A new statewide crop residue burning program approved by the 2008 legislature began in Idaho on September 2, 2008. The new program, a culmination [...]
Air, Nonattainment & Air quality
Tuesday 10:30am Cinnabar Room
Melissa Gibbs,
and Martin Bauer, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
Matt Stoll, COMPASS
The panel will discuss the basics of nonattainment from the National Ambient Air Quality Standards to the financial impact companies and federal grant dollar recipients may face; the city-level regulatory approach and timeline for going from nonattainment status [...]
