[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HEALTH: U.S. Navy to sample air in Italy

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy to monitor air in key spots in Italy


By Sandra Jontz
Stars and Stripes European edition
June 2, 2008

NAPLES, Italy - The U.S. Navy in Naples is expanding on environmental 
monitoring services provided by Italian counterparts by putting air 
monitoring stations where U.S. and NATO members live and work.

Tetra Tech, a Navy-contracted environmental company, will place the 
stations in areas not serviced by the Italian government, which has them 
throughout the Campania region, according to Dr. (Cmdr.) Walter 
Dalitsch, the occupational health officer in Naples.

"The air monitoring stations will monitor for the usual components of 
smog and combustion products, such as ozone, sulfur dioxide, oxides of 
nitrogen and particulate matter, as well as for other potential air 
contaminants of possible concern for human health," Dalitsch said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55255

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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