{"id":1630,"date":"2015-09-08T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:52:22","slug":"wfmd-md-making-progress-in-meeting-epa-air-quality-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/09\/08\/wfmd-md-making-progress-in-meeting-epa-air-quality-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"WFMD: Md. Making Progress In Meeting EPA Air Quality Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the air in Maryland seems a little easier to breathe, there&#8217;s a reason. The Department of the Environment says the state is continuing to meet air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. &#8220;The requirement was to come into compliance in 2014. The data is so close that the EPA is giving the area an extra year,&#8221; says Tad Aburn, the Air Director for the MDE. &#8220;Current data indicates that the area will come into compliance with the current standards&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmd.com\/articles\/wfmd-local-news-119935\/md-making-progress-in-meeting-epa-13920712\" target=\"_blank\">the entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the air in Maryland seems a little easier to breathe, there&#8217;s a reason. The Department of the Environment says the state is continuing to meet air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. &#8220;The requirement was to come into compliance in 2014. The data is so close that the EPA is giving the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/09\/08\/wfmd-md-making-progress-in-meeting-epa-air-quality-standards\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-air-2","category-epa","category-news-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}