Ocean County is one of eight New Jersey counties that received a failing grade for ozone levels in the air, along with Bergen, Camden, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, according to this year’s State of the Air report on the country’s air quality released on Wednesday, April 21, by the American Lung Association.

More specifically the “F” is for the high number of days when the county’s ground-level ozone – a pollutant that forms on hot summer days that can cause respiratory…