The Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to
study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.
Not exact matches
Second Avenue Subway construction is causing
air quality problems, according to a
study requested by Assemblyman Micah Kellner.
«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar
air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the
study.
In that
study, they found that the nature of the chemicals that were released into the water subsequently became a
problem with the
air quality in nearby residents» homes.
The failure of OSM to address these troublesome programmatic issues is particularly alarming given recent scientific
studies that have documented the scale of the impacts to
air and water
quality, and the link between these impacts and human health
problems in Appalachia.