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The follwing post comes from Invest in Louisiana's Daily Dime:

Community air monitoring in lawmakers’ crosshairs

Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality only has 40 stationary air monitoring sensors in one of the most polluted states in the country. The Louisiana Environmental Action Network has tried to fill the gap by conducting its own air monitoring. As Floodlight's Terry L. Jones reports, state legislators are attempting to prevent data from such community-led efforts to be counted and used for enforcement or regulatory actions:

“(Lawmakers) are making one hurdle after another to stop communities and discourage them from collecting any data by saying even if you collected it, we’re not going to count it; it’s not going to be important,” [LEAN executive director MaryLee] Orr said. The industry-backed bill passed the House Wednesday on a 75-16 vote. The amended version returns to

the Senate Monday, where an earlier version passed by an overwhelming majority.