What is the Ozone Action Program?
The Ozone Action Program is a public outreach effort aimed at limiting ozone in the state’s major urban areas. Our goal is to help cut ozone levels by informing the public about air pollution, its causes and effects, and ways they can help reduce it. The program, which ran for its first full “ozone season” during the summer of 1997 in Mecklenburg and Forsyth counties, is expanding to the Triangle this year. The Division of Air Quality is running the Triangle program in cooperation with the Triangle J Council of Governments and more than 35 businesses partners. It operates the Charlotte program with the Mecklenburg County Department of Environmental Protection, 115 businesses and 11 newspapers, radio and TV stations. The division also supports a similar program in the Triad, which is operated by the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce and the Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department, with 43 businesses and 12 media outlets. How does the Ozone Action Program work? The Ozone Action P
