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Second-Best Ozone Season in a Decade: NC’s 2010 ozone season comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb

by Dr. Roy Cordato
posted on in Energy & Environment, Health Care & Human Services
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Key facts:

  • In 2010 North Carolina recorded the second-lowest number of high-ozone days of the last decade.
  • A statewide total of 106 high ozone monitor readings were recorded over 26 days from April 1 to October 31.
  • Thirty-two of those readings occurred on just eight monitors in two metropolitan areas.
  • Despite what might be the popular belief, smog levels in North Carolina have been getting better, not worse.


Spotlight 403 Second-Best Ozone Season in a Decade: NC’s 2010 ozone season comes in like a lion, goes out l…

In June 2019 Roy Cordato retired from his full time position as Senior Economist and Resident Scholar at the John Locke Foundation and currently holds the position of Senior Economist Emeritus at the Foundation. From January 2001 to March 2017,… ...

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