According to the study, more people in CT die each year as a result of air pollution than in any other New England state. He also said proper maintenance of older cars is important for reducing the pollution that can diminish health over a lifetime.
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Also troubling for Orange County is that pollution is expected to get worse here because of population growth and drought-fueled wildfires, according to Michael Kleinman, a UC Irvine occupational and environmental medicine professor who studies inhalation of toxins.
The peer-reviewed report comes from the American Thoracic Society, the leading medical association of respiratory disease specialists, and New York University’s Marron Institute for Urban Management.
Even though air quality is getting better, the state is being cited for having some of the worst air pollution on the East Coast. Cromar said that same rule can not be applied on different cities.
As per Cromar, “The solutions need to be city specific”. And in areas with growing populations, like Greenville County, he said, even if pollution is maintained at the same level, the health impacts will increase.
The researchers used the same software that the EPA uses to conduct regulatory cost-benefit analysis to estimate the health benefits of more protective standards for O3 and PM2.5.
The study found the most severe air-pollution issues in California, where an estimated 3,632 people die a year because of poor air quality.
Phoenix (Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz.): 283 lives saved.
Small improvements have the biggest impact in places where the pollution has already been reduced, Jarrett said.
But the county adds that it relies on EPA and its science advisors to set standards that will protect public health “rather than a local interpretation of individual national studies”.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded grants to six research organisations to develop and use low-priced air pollution sensor technology, while engaging communities to learn about their local air quality.
Poor air quality can contribute to heart attacks, chronic bronchitis, hospital admissions or emergency room visits for people with cardiovacular or respiratory conditions, the study said.
Now it’s hard to estimate how much pollution residents of that island are exposed to because of the high variability of emissions from the volcano, so a low-priced monitoring network could help the community better assess exposure levels, according to the project abstract.
The Cleveland area leads the state in the number of deaths and serious health problems caused by air pollution, and ranks ninth worst in the country, according to a new report released today.
Modest reductions in allowable levels of ground-level ozone and fine particulate pollution would yield a host of health benefits, including almost 10,000 deaths prevented each year, according to a report issued by the American Thoracic Society. In the Riverside area, there are 808 deaths annually. Researchers will develop sustainable, local strategies to monitor, analyse and share measurement results about air pollutants.
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Cromer and his colleagues also created a website, HealthoftheAir.org, that allows users to input ZIP codes to learn the estimated numbers of deaths and illness in regions throughout the nation.
