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According to School of Public Health Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences Peter Koutrakis, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently monitors ozone levels in major cities with large bulky instruments each costing about...
...EPA samplers measure around 3x3x3 feet and cost near $10,000, whereas the Koutrakis sampler is the size of a whistle and costs only...
...thirds of the people in the United States live in areas that don't satisfy national air quality standards," says Koutrakis. "There is a lot of pressure on the EPA to reduce the ozone in the atmosphere...
...EPA currently places large monitors in the center of major cities in order to regulate ozone levels...
Koutrakis said the sampler is currently in use by universities and research groups developing statistical models for measuring exposure, and to let the EPA know the extent to which their current measurements are inaccurate...