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by Channel 2 News staff and wire reports
Saturday, August 8, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Smoke from wildfires certainly isn't helping the pollution problem in Fairbanks, and state officials say they'll take action to reduce air pollution if local officials don't.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the state and the Fairbanks North Star Borough have a plan for the borough to be in a lead role to cut pollution.
But that agreement stalled in the borough Assembly, and public officials are considering asking voters whether local government or the state should run an air quality program.
The borough has tentatively proposed fighting pollution with tax breaks, a registration process and replacing older or inefficient wood and coal-fed heating systems.
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