Ah the classic Republican thinking "If we can't stop it, we'll make it impossible."

Worked with abortion and now they are doing it on science.

In response to the influx of grassroots air monitoring, Louisiana’s Legislature passed the Community Air Monitoring Reliability Act, or CAMRA, which requires that community groups that monitor pollutants “for the purpose of alleging violations or noncompliance” of federal law must follow EPA standards, including approved equipment that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Maybe, just maybe, if you have a ton of grassroots air quality monitoring, you might have air quality issues. 🤷‍♂️

The name of the town is "Sulphur". A bit foreboding.

They're going to fine people for "sharing information about air quality that did not meet strict standards"? The irony here is so thick you can spread it on toast.

Fascism.

The giveaway was someone named the town Sulphur.

Under the Biden administration, the EPA tightened regulations for these pollutants, though the Trump administration has committed to rolling them back.

The Biden administration’s EPA also injected funding to support community-based air monitoring, especially in neighborhoods on the “fence-line” with industrial plants that emitted pollutants that they were not required to publicly monitor under federal law. Some groups say they lack confidence in the data the state does provide and embraced the chance to monitor the air themselves with federal funding.

Both parties are beholden to their corporate overlords. In this case, Biden was obviously trying to help Big Community Monitoring.

You can easily build your own air quality sensor. It's a cheap and awesome science project and you can contribute to a global grassroot sensor network:

https://sensor.community/en/

I have one running, AMA if you want

MAHA