VNPA Partners to Reduce Air Pollution Over Voyageurs National
Park Minnesota’s Revised Regional Haze State Implementation Plan
(SIP), mandated by the federal EPA in order to meet requirements
for the Clean Air Act, represents our state’s individual plan to
address visibility impairment caused by air pollution in Class I
areas (in Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness), with the goals of achieving
natural visibility conditions by 2064. Voyageurs National Park
Association, in collaboration with the Minnesota Center for
Environmental Advocacy, the Friends of the Boundary Waters
Wilderness, and National Parks Conservation Association, has
been working with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to
ensure that the Regional Haze SIP will result in clean, clear
air over Voyageurs National Park and the Boundary Waters
Wilderness. The draft plan contains positive steps for reducing
harmful emissions, but fails to follow the legally required BART
(Best Available Retrofit Techn