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May 9, 2008

Tiny Wyoming town has big city pollution

  • Pollution from natural gas drilling — along with dust, weather and geography — produces ozone levels like those found in big cities.
    • By BOB MOEN
    Associated Press Writer

    BOULDER, Wyo. — There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.

    But Boulder, with a population of just 75 people, has one thing in common with major metropolitan areas: air pollution thick enough to pose health risks.


     
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