AIR QUALITY

Cumberland County suffers from some of the worst air quality in the United States; some days our air quality is worse than that of Beijing. We are the Northeast transportation hub because of our direct routes to the Midwest, Florida and New England. This fact will not change and it will continue to bring transportation and air quality issues to the area. Cumberland County is an instrumentality of our federal and state governments.  As such, we  wait on our for our elected officials to focus on clean energy, trucking and traffic issues.  In the interim, we should enforce our no idling law and encourage the use of the railroad to transport goods to and from the area.  As your Commissioner, I will look for ways to alleviate our air pollution and partner with leaders in both the public and private sectors to move us toward sustainability and air we can safely breathe.