Sentences with phrase «u.s. ozone pollution»

«Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution.»

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Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

This is what's known about the dynamics of the stratosphere: Increasing clouds of low - lying ozone, made from the reaction between sunlight and pollution, are showing up in the western U.S. that have little or no industrial activity.

Maya Almaraz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, decided to investigate farmland's contribution to air pollution after noticing that five of the top 10 U.S. cities for ozone pollution are in the Central Valley.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

While it has been known for over a decade that Asian pollution contributes to ozone levels in the United States, this study is one of the first to categorize the extent to which rising Asian emissions contribute to U.S. ozone, according to Lin.

According to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), levels of all major air pollution contaminants (ozone, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and lead) are down significantly since 1970; carbon monoxide levels alone dropped by more than 70 percent.

The study, conducted by the researcher from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, further revealed that the Chinese ozone pollution has significantly impacted the pollution management within the U.S., resulting in an offset of 43 percent of the total effort being made.

It is estimated that if the ozone pollution continues to grow at the same pace, it might start affecting the weather in the U.S. soon.

North of Los Angeles, the area also has the second - highest level of ozone pollution in the U.S. Mountains surround the valley on three sides, creating inversion layers that trap pollution, with little wind to carry it away.

The American Lung Association breaks down the most polluted cities in the U.S. by ozone and particulate pollution.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

This week, Maine physicians joined U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy at the White House to declare climate change a public health threat due to the likelihood of more frequent heat waves and higher ozone pollution.

Salt Lake Tribune August 7, 2017 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by a year.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

CAMS maps also demonstrate ozone levels over the U.S. West Coast, nitrogen dioxide pollution over Europe, and global wildfire emissions.