‘Ride-along’ as federal, local officials study Clark County’s air

Federal and Clark County officials held a “ride-along” Thursday successful a mobile laboratory designed to survey aerial prime successful Southern Nevada.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the county’s Department of Environment and Sustainability are conducting the SUNVEx survey to look astatine the pollutants that lend to the enactment of ground-level ozone.

When it is inhaled, ozone tin irritate the lungs and tin origin wellness problems, particularly successful young children, the aged and those with breathing issues.

Earlier this week, Clark County released a report showing that ozone exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s modular connected 11 days from April done June.

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