Title: Environmental Agency Tightens Smog Standards | Summary: The EPA is trying to lower the amount of concentration of the ozone from 84 parts per billion every eight hours to 75parts per billion. They call this the Clean Air Act. This goal will take decades to reach and with the number of cities that will not cooperate this will be a tough goal to reach. There are many cities that exceed the 84 parts per billion making this goal a very challenging one. Also it makes this hard for the country itself because This decreasion is needed because health risks are rising and also countries aren’t able to do this because it is very expensive. |
| Author: Mathew L. Wald | |
| Date Published: March 13, 2008 | |
| Source: New York Times | |
| Web Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/ |
Title: Is Healthy Air Bad? | Summary: This article was written when Beijing was about to hold the 2009 Olympics. In order for them to be able to hold these athletic games they had to make their already “clean” air which was determined in Beijing to clean according to the United States. For them to accomplish this they had to close down factories and get people off the road and out of their cars. A man by the name of Veerabhadran Ramanathan was there keeping a close watch on the pollution. He conducted many unnamed experiments one being able to see if the pollution being produced here affected the rest of the world. Through this he evaluates the air and thinks it is unhealthy and the Chinese’s attempt to clean their air has a direct impact on global warming. Overall he thinks this is a good way of raising awareness about air pollution and its effects on Global Warming. |
| Author: Jamie Reno | |
| Date Published: August 7, 2008 | |
| Source: News Week | |
| Web Link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/151355 |
Title: How Air Pollution Can Damage the Heart | Summary: In this article they conducted many studies on the effect of traffic on your blood pressure. Traffic alone frustrates many people on the road; increasing ones blood pressure along with frustration the air pollution from cars also raises it. They conducted a study in a lab consisting of two healthy people from two different places and exposed them to the amount of ozone and particulates. When they breathed in the polluted air their blood pressure had risen and their blood vessels were impaired for the next day. It has been well known that particulates have caused heart problems, even more so than ozone. Particulates dig deep into the lungs causing them to inflame and or causing long term damage. Most healthy people will not see much of a difference but weaker people see vast changes in their health. |
| Author: Alice Park | |
| Date Published: September 9, 2009 | |
| Source: Time Magazine | |
| Web Link: http://www.time.com/time |
Title: Pollution: Dangerous to Joggers | Summary: Polluted air not only affects your lungs but is also detrimental to your heart. Dr. Nicholas Mills of the University of Edinburgh, conducted a study. He examined joggers who ran in heavily polluted areas such as urban areas and then he compared them to joggers in clean air. The polluted air caused damage to the blood vessels causing clots and or heart attacks. These patience help the damage on their blood vessels continued after. These effects are seen to anyone who is exposed to car exhaust whether it is someone sitting in traffic or someone running along the road. |
| Author: Alice Park | |
| Date Published: September 7, 2007 | |
| Source: Times Magazine | |
| Web Link: http://www.time.com/time/ |
Title: EPA to set new limits for big polluters | Summary: The EPA has uncovered a new rule that they want to put on large factories, oil refienerios, and power plants. They need to update their technology because the EPA blames them for the high admission of carbon dioxcide. They aspire to lower they amout of carbondioxcide and other greenhouse gasses that they create. This rule will take effect in January for all the factories that have the Clean Air Act and then in July all plants that emit 75,000 tons of greenhouse gases will be under the rule. |
| Author: Associated Press | |
| Date Published: May 14, 2010 | |
| Source: The Boston Globe | |
| Web Link: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ |
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