Air Pollution Sources
Rules, Rules and More Rules
Name That Pollutant
Don't Breathe That Air
SEDO Air Trivia
100
This activity may be prohibited depending on what is being burned and where.
What is open burning?
100
Law passed by Congress that established key air pollution regulations.
What is the Clean Air Act?
100
Coal-burning power plants are the primary sources of these two criteria pollutants.
What are SO2 and NOx?
100
Air pollution that hangs over cities and reduces visibility.
What is smog?
100
The primary job duty of these DAPC, SEDO employees who you may not see around SEDO much because they are always in the field.
What is ambient air monitoring?
200
This source creates substantial amounts of smoke, yet it is unregulated by federal or state air pollution control laws.
What is an outdoor furnace?
200
The standards that cover six criteria pollutants regulated by U.S. EPA.
What are the National Ambient Air Quality Standards or NAAQS?
200
The mixture of oxygen, nitrogen oxides and VOC creates this pollutant.
What is ozone?
200
An odorless, colorless, poisonous gas that is produced by the incomplete burning of fossil fuels.
What is carbon monoxide or CO?
200
This air monitoring equipment is being used to measure the effects of oil/gas well drilling and production at this southeast Ohio attraction.
What is the Wilds?
300
A general permit-to-install and operate from DAPC may be required for this equipment.
What is an oil/gas well?
300
The federal standards that regulate the emissions of hazardous air pollutants from sources.
What are the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants or NESHAPs?
300
CO2, methane and fluorinated gases are examples of this category of air pollutants.
What are greenhouse gases (GHGs)?
300
The second leading cause of lung cancer in the US.
What is radon?
300
This type of source is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and SEDO regulates more of them than any other district.
What is Rex Haggy? What is a coal-fired power plant?
400
A device used at an asphalt plant to remove dust particles from the waste gas stream.
What is a baghouse?
400
This plan, negotiated between Ohio EPA and U.S. EPA, spells out the strategies that Ohio will use to maintain or improve ambient air quality.
What is the State Implementation Plan or SIP?
400
Long, thin fibers used as an insulator in buildings that have been linked to many diseases and were banned in the US in the early 1970's.
What is asbestos?
400
All cars to have this equipment on their exhaust systems to reduce emissions.
What is a catalytic converter?
400
This source in Washington County continues to be a problem for many SEDO programs.
What is Marietta Industrial Enterprises?
500
A device that removes gaseous pollutants by spraying them with water to dissolve or absorb them.
What is a scrubber?
500
This type of permit ensures that new large sources of air pollution install best available control measures in attainment areas.
What is a Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit?
500
These pollutants can be found in aerosol spray cans, refrigerators, and air conditioners.
What are chloroluorocrbons (CFCs)?
500
The human activity that is the main cause of air pollution in the United States.
What is transportation (mobile sources)?
500
This company, with headquarters in a county covered by SEDO, was sued for air pollution violations at several of its portable facilities, including one count that the company fought all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court and lost.
What is the Shelly Company?
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