Tag: air pollution

The polluting activities rely mostly on the burning of fossil fuels and so are significant producers of the carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change.

In 11 out of 13 people sampled, a total of 39 microplastics were found in all regions of the lung.

“By 2035, the quality and stability of national forest, grassland, wetland and desert ecosystems will have been comprehensively upgraded.”

“For all years and pollutants, the racial/ethnic group with the highest national average exposure was a racial/ethnic minority group,”

Despite the high stakes for public health, the EPA relies on emissions data it knows to be inaccurate. To expose toxic hot spots, we first had to get the facts straight.

The worst three are in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," five of the top 20 are in Texas, and predominantly Black areas experience double the cancer risk of white areas.

"The Environmental Protection Agency now has an opportunity to strengthen our national, health-based standards for ground-level ozone."

Wildfire smoke is a problem because it contributes to air pollution.

This is not the first time that climate measures and aviation bailouts have coincided in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

"We took action so that lawmakers, decision makers and politicians finally take this climate and air quality crisis seriously, for everyone's sake."