Sentences with phrase «unhealthy ozone levels»
Oil and gas development has long drawn criticism for its environmental effects, which range from road - killed wildlife to unhealthy ozone levels.
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And in the United States, about 4 in 10 people live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he would sue the EPA over what he said was the agency missing a statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone.
State AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as smog).
The researchers estimate that cutting those 14 together could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths (largely from smoky, unhealthy air) and increase crop yields by between 30 million and 135 million metric tons (due to concomitant reductions in ground - level ozone, otherwise known as smog, which forms from fugitive methane and blights crops in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and elsewhere).
The detailed study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70 percent increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050.
Visible pollutants can react with sunlight to create invisible ozone pollution, which frequently reaches unhealthy levels in major cities like Los Angeles.
Heavily polluted locations in parts of the East, Midwest, and West Coast in which ozone already frequently exceeds recommended levels could face unhealthy air during most of the summer.
O'Connor lives in Philadelphia, which ranks No. 11 on the American Lung Associations list of most polluted U.S. cities in terms of unhealthy levels of ozone.
Another example would be ozone levels which become more unhealthy with high temperatures or the heat index.