The Mexican capital’s joint Metropolitan Environmental Commission (CAM) has unveiled its first-ever long-range program to reduce air pollution in the smog-shrouded Valley of Mexico. Now the question is: Will it survive the perilous transition from paper to practice? The 2002-2010 Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area Air Quality Improvement Program, known as Proaire III, is a blueprint of astonishing scope. It details on a year-by-year basis how authorities expect to remove 826,000 tons of pollutants from the skies in and around the Federal District during this decade. Calling for public and private investment totaling $14.7 billion and an array of 89 projects, the plan promises reductions of 18% in suspended particulates, 16% in sulfur dioxide, 26% in carbon monoxide, 43% in... [Log in to read more]
