EPA is cracking down on deadly air pollution with a new rule ...
Feb 7, 2024 · The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a key update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot – a step to reduce deadly air pollution that’s been over a decade in the making.
Air Pollution News -- ScienceDaily
2 days ago · Curbing Air Pollution Control Devices Would Cost Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars. Oct. 25, 2024 — A new commentary found that power plants' use of these devices saved up to 9,100 ...
130 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, State of the Air ...
Apr 24, 2024 · 130 million Americans routinely breathe unhealthy air, report finds. Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While ...
131 million in U.S. live in areas with unhealthy pollution ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify ...
EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time ...
Feb 7, 2024 · The annual PM2.5 limit was first implemented in 1997, and was tightened in 2012 from 15 to 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air. In 2020 under the Trump administration, the EPA decided to keep ...
Nearly 40% of people in the US live with unhealthy air ... - CNN
Apr 23, 2024 · CNN —. More people across the United States – nearly 40% – are living in places with unhealthy levels of polluted air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The ...
Air pollution: Even worse than we thought - WHO - BBC
Sep 22, 2021 · Air pollution is even more dangerous than previously thought, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as it slashes maximum safe levels of key pollutants such nitrogen dioxide. An ...
Deadly and growing impact of air pollution laid ... - UN News
Jun 18, 2024 · The State of Global Air (SoGA) report published in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns on Wednesday that air pollution is increasingly impacting human health - and is now the second leading global risk factor for premature death. The fifth edition of the report, released by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), revealed that ...
New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of ...
Sep 22, 2021 · Русский. Español. New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at even lower concentrations than previously understood. The guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect the health of populations, by reducing levels of key air pollutants, some of which ...
‘The air that keeps us alive is making us sick ... - UN News
7 September 2022 Climate and Environment. International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, marked on 7 September, takes place in a world where almost all the air we breathe is polluted, and some seven million people die from air pollution every year. Ahead of the Day, UN News spoke to two experts about the scale of the problem, and the solutions ...
Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO - UN News
Apr 4, 2022 · The new air quality database is the most extensive yet in its coverage of air pollution exposure on the ground, WHO says. Some 2,000 more cities/human settlements now record ground monitoring data for particulate matter, PM10 and/or PM2.5, than the last update. This marks an almost six-fold rise in reporting since the database launched in 2011.
Billions of people still breathe unhealthy air: new WHO data
Apr 4, 2022 · Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, and threatens their health. A record number of over 6000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle-income countries …
More Black Americans die from effects of air pollution | News ...
Jul 16, 2024 · The silver lining is that the groups who suffer more from increasing air pollution would also benefit more from decreasing air pollution. For every unit of reduction in PM2.5, for example, the associated mortality risk would decrease more for Black Americans than for other groups, helping close the racial gap.
Air pollution is cutting more than 2 years from billions of ...
Sep 1, 2021 · Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people’s lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a report published Wednesday shows.. In ...
Wildfire smoke erodes air quality gains in the U.S. : NPR
Sep 20, 2023 · The study found that since 2016, in states like California, Washington and Oregon, wildfire smoke has added enough pollution to the air to wipe out nearly half of the total air quality gains made ...
Air Pollution’s Invisible Toll on Your Health - The New York ...
Jun 28, 2021 · Exposure to air pollution early in life can result in respiratory, cardiovascular, mental and perinatal disorders, according to the United States Global Change Research Program. Air pollution can ...
All but 7 Countries on Earth Have Air Pollution Above WHO ...
Mar 19, 2024 · 31. Dhaka in Bangladesh is consistently ranked one of the world’s most polluted cities. Monirul Alam/EPA, via Shutterstock. By Delger Erdenesanaa. March 19, 2024. Only 10 countries and ...
Air Pollution - The New York Times
News about Air Pollution, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Lahore air pollution hits historic high, forcing school closures
1 day ago · By Reuters. KARACHI, Pakistan — Unprecedented air pollution levels in Pakistan ’s second-largest city of Lahore prompted authorities to take emergency measures on Sunday, including issuing ...
Air pollution - BBC News
Oct 6, 2024 · Mum settles legal action over air pollution death Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived near London's South Circular Road, had a fatal asthma attack in 2013. 41 mins ago