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1999 Air Quality News Releases

December 27, 1999

• Air Operating Permit Register

December 23, 1999

• Ecology Department Issues Air Quality Advisory

December 22, 1999

• I-695 and Air Pollution

December 21, 1999

• New EPA Standards Will Help Washington’s Air

December 16, 1999

• Avoid pre- and post- New Year Emission Check Crunch

December 13, 1999

• ‘DNS’ Designation Withdrawn From Tire Burning Proposal

December 9, 1999

• Ellensburg Man Agrees to $10,000 Settlement for Tire Fire

December 8, 1999

• Final Figures Show Wheat Stubble Burning Down in Fall

December 1, 1999

• Emission Check Changes Start January 4, 2000

November 16, 1999

• Rock Crushing Company Settles with Ecology

October 29, 1999

• Georgia-Pacific to Reduce Air and Water Pollution

October 26, 1999

• Agreement Settles Air Violations at Okanogan Landfill

October 22, 1999

• Agricultural Burning Down in 1999

October 15, 1999

• Ecology Discloses Additional Documents Related to Wheat and Grass Burning

October 11, 1999

• Ecology Extends Comment Period for Trial Burn in Columbia Gorge

October 6, 1999

• Gasoline Cargo Tank Test Procedures
• Gasoline Cargo Tank Certification Form

October 4, 1999

• Ecology Department Plans Changes in Vehicle Emission Checks
• Contract Revisions and Fee Increase


• Ecology Seeks Comment on Revised Open Burning Proposal

September 27, 1999

• High Air Pollution Measured in Saturday's Dust Storm

September 24, 1999

• Yesterday's Dust Storm May Not Be Season's Last
• Court Dismisses Save Our Summers' Lawsuit Against Ecology

September 13, 1999

• Chem Central Fire Update

September 7, 1999

• Ecology Reissues Penalty for Illegal Garbage Fire

August 27, 1999

• Portland-Vancouver Clean Air Action Day, August 27, 1999

August 19, 1999

• Ritzville Man Fined $12,000 for Illegal Trash Burning

August 18, 1999

• Fourteen Growers Fined $54,632 in First Round of Illegal Burning Penalties

August 16, 1999

• Tacoma Aluminum Smelter Violates Air Quality Standards Again

August 13, 1999

• Kaiser Mead Fined $58,800 for Air Quality Violations

August 6, 1999

• Farming for Cleaner Air Brochure

August 2, 1999

• Wheat-burning Agreement is Good for Eastern Washington
• What is the Bottom Line on Clean, Healthy, Air?

July 28, 1999

• Alternative Uses for Post-Harvest Agricultural Residue (Link removed)
  This site contains the Request for Proposals for projects relating to alternative uses for agricultural residue.

July 27, 1999

• Construction Dust on Rise This Year

July 16, 1999

• Trouble in Paradise for Air Quality at Mount Rainier

June 30, 1999

• Infrared Remote Sensing of On-Road Motor Vehicle Emissions in Washington State
• Appendices of the Infrared Remote Sensing of On-Road Motor Vehicle Emissions in Washington State
  These documents are located on the Vehicle Emission Check Home Page.

June 14, 1999

• Ninety Farmers Sent Violation Notices for Illegal Burning in 1998

June 8, 1999

• Kaiser Mead Fined $18,400 for Violating Air Quality

June 1, 1999

• Agricultural Burning Permits

May 25, 1999

• Environmental Representative Joins Waste-to-Energy Technical Committee

May 19, 1999

• Non-Cereal Grain Crops (Link removed)
• Emission Inventory Quality Assurance Plan

May 13, 1999

• Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad Fined For Odor Violations

May 11, 1999

• Kaiser Aluminum Fined $86,000 For Violating Air Quality Laws

May 4, 1999

• Landowner Applies For Relief From Tire Fire Penalty

April 28, 1999

• Ecology Report Shows Chemical Release Levels Going Down

April 21, 1999

• Penalty for Air Quality Violations Reduced

April 8, 1999

• Tacoma Aluminum Smelter Penalized for Illegal Air Emissions

March 24, 1999

• Emission Check Program Home Page

March 18, 1999

• Chelan County Man Fined $22,000 for Illegal Dump Fire

March 11, 1999

• Hearings Board Upholds Asbestos Penalty; Work Continues at Site

February 25, 1999

• New Guidelines Adopted to Reduce Field-Burning Smoke

February 22, 1999

• Moses Lake Company Fined $10,000 For Releasing Toxic Chemicals

January 28, 1999

• Enforcement Action Wraps Up Lumber Company's Air Issues

January 11, 1999

• Ellensburg Landowner Fined for Illegal Fire

January 5, 1999

• Wheat Growers Agree to Decrease Smoke Emissions by 50 Percent

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