Assignment: Ozone in Central Arkansas

Read carefully the article (linked here as an Adobe Acrobat file) entitled “Panel fears failure near on air quality” (August 2007, AR Dem. Gazette).
Also read the section describing ground level ozone in Chapter 1 of the lecture text.

1. Is ozone produced directly from the combustion of gasoline?

2. The human nose can detect ozone at concentrations of about 20 ppb. The article gives an ozone concentration that is the upper limit if the air is to be considered “healthy.” Compare that concentration to the limit of human nose detection. Could the human nose detect ozone at the concentration described in the article. Defend answer.

3. If central Arkansas is deemed to be out of compliance with federal standards for ozone, what measures described in the article could be legally imposed on central Arkansans?

4. What region of Arkansas recently experienced an economic impact as a result of air quality issues of which ozone levels were one component.