Air Pollution: Current and Future Challenges

Indoor air pollution, which arises from a variety of causes, also can cause health problems, For more information on indoor air pollution, which is not regulated under the Clean Air Act, see EPAs indoor air web site, However, air pollution can be harmful even when it is not visible, Newer scientific studies have shown that some pollutants can harm public health and welfare even at very low levels, EPA in recent years rev…

Air pollution in the United States

Overview

Air Quality – National Summary

Air Quality Trends

Our Nation’s Air 2020

Air Pollution Includes Gases and Particles, Air pollution consists of gas and particle contaminants that are present in the atmosphere, Gaseous pollutants include sulfur dioxide SO 2, oxides of nitrogen NO x, ozone O 3, carbon monoxide CO, volatile organic compounds VOCs, certain toxic air pollutants and some gaseous forms of metals,Particle pollution PM 2,5 and PM 10 includes a

Air Pollution in America

Some sources of air pollution in America are: Exhaust carbon monoxide from cars and other transportation vehicles Smoke and soot from forest fires, factories, and other sources Naturally occurring methane gas from farms and the breakdown of organic matter …

Trouble in the Air

The pollution in America’s air causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year and contributes to health problems ranging from asthma to dementia, The World Health Organization WHO and studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association , Environmental Health Perspectives , and the New England Journal of Medicine have all concluded that any level of air pollution causes

These are the US cities with the worst air pollution

“Air pollution can be just as dangerous for our health as smoking,” Wendy Wendlandt, president of Environment America Research & Policy Center, …

Air Pollution in North America: Real-time Air Quality

7 lignesThe GAIA air quality monitoring stations are using high-tech laser particle sensors to measure in

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U,S,: Air pollution deaths 2019

Toxic air pollution released by U,S, companies 2018 Number of days with poor air quality in U,S, metro areas 2018 Deaths attributable to air pollution in the United States 1990-2019

Air Pollution

Air pollution is one of the world’s leading risk factors for death, attributed to 5 million deaths each year, Air pollution is attributed to 9% of deaths globally, It is also one of the leading risk factors for disease burden, Death rates from air pollution are highest in low-to-middle income countries, with more than 100-fold differences in

Latin America’s Air Pollution Impacts Climate and Health

Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk for health in the Americas, according to the World Health Organization, The theme of World Environment Day this year is Air Pollution, and this

Poison in the Air — ProPublica

ProPublica’s reporting exposes flaws with EPA’s implementation of the Clean Air Act, a landmark law that dramatically reduced air pollution across America but provided less protection to …

Air pollution overshadows brain performance and workforce

Nov 16, 2021, Even short-term exposure to air pollution affects our brain’s performance and ability to work, according to researchers from the University of Queensland and Carnegie Mellon University, Dr, Andrea La Nauze of UQ’s School of Economics said a data study showed that air pollution impaired cognitive functions in working-age adults,

Curbing air pollution could prevent millions of deaths in

“We think of our air as being relatively clean in North America,” he said, “And so one of the things I think is so incredible is how many people are still affected by our air quality, even though it’s so much better than it was decades ago,” The striking predictions, according to Shindell, suggest human actions to curb air pollution now can make a difference in both the long and short term