Key facts:
- In 2010 North Carolina recorded the second-lowest number of high-ozone days of the last decade.
- A statewide total of 106 high ozone monitor readings were recorded over 26 days from April 1 to October 31.
- Thirty-two of those readings occurred on just eight monitors in two metropolitan areas.
- Despite what might be the popular belief, smog levels in North Carolina have been getting better, not worse.
