State Report for CONNECTICUT

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Criteria Air Pollutant Report: CONNECTICUT
 

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CONNECTICUT

Air Quality Rankings: Health Risks, Exposures, and Emissions

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Sulfur Dioxide emissions:
Volatile Organic Compound emissions:
Person-days in exceedance of national air quality standard for ozone (1-hour):
Person-days in exceedance of national air quality standard for ozone (8-hour):

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Health Risks

Population Exposed to Unhealthy Levels of Criteria Air Pollutants:

Pollutant Person-days
in exceedance
of NAAQS
Ozone
    8-hour average 39,295,029
    1-hour average 13,683,592
PM-25
    Annual arithmetic mean 1,683,746


Exposures to Criteria Air Pollutants

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1999 Emissions Summary of Criteria Air Pollutants

(Expressed in tons of pollutant emitted)
  Carbon
monoxide
Nitrogen
oxides
PM-2.5 PM-10 Sulfur
dioxide
Volatile
organic
compounds
Mobile Sources735,703121,93512,52938,8239,05975,211
Area Sources173,93910,4199,81433,87753972,106
Point Sources4,34022,8031,1851,54548,4567,407
All sources913,982155,15823,52874,24458,054154,724

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