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Will North Carolina continue making progress on air quality?

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Air Monitoring Station

Senior environmental specialist Cary Gentry checks readings Thursday at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection’s multipollutant air monitoring station in Winston-Salem.

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The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Senior environmental specialists Cary Gentry (left) and Lawrence Akoje work at a multipollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue in Winston-Salem. The monitoring station can help detect particles in the air, such as earlier this summer when the Triad’s air was affected by large dust storms in the Sahara Desert.

Environmental specialist Ralf Arend, left, and senior environmental specialist Lawrence Akoje at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Environmental specialist Ralf Arend changes out the 10 micron particulate matter filter at an air monitoring station in Winston-Salem. The overall trend in the region in the last decade has been cleaner air, says Minor Barnette of the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection.

Senior environmental specialists Cary Gentry, right, and Lawrence Akoje at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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The cold shoulder that officials in Raleigh gave the federal Clean Power Plan last week put a spotlight on air quality, something most people take for granted unless they have allergies or a respiratory disease.

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Senior environmental specialist Cary Gentry checks readings Thursday at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection’s multipollutant air monitoring station in Winston-Salem.

The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Senior environmental specialists Cary Gentry (left) and Lawrence Akoje work at a multipollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue in Winston-Salem. The monitoring station can help detect particles in the air, such as earlier this summer when the Triad’s air was affected by large dust storms in the Sahara Desert.

Environmental specialist Ralf Arend, left, and senior environmental specialist Lawrence Akoje at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Environmental specialist Ralf Arend changes out the 10 micron particulate matter filter at an air monitoring station in Winston-Salem. The overall trend in the region in the last decade has been cleaner air, says Minor Barnette of the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection.

Senior environmental specialists Cary Gentry, right, and Lawrence Akoje at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection multi-pollutant air monitoring station on Hattie Avenue, on Thursday, August 6, 2015, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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