"I don't care who own the Chiefs. I hate it here. It make me sick. My allergy, puke every time, bleugh! Like that, puke."
Posted on 04/29/2009 10:07:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES – Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday.
The public-health group ranked the pollution levels of U.S. cities and counties based on air quality measurements that state and local agencies reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency between 2005 and 2007.
Overall, the report found that air pollution at times reaches unhealthy levels in almost every major city and that 186.1 million people live in those areas. The number is much higher than last year's figure of about 125 million people because recent changes to the federal ozone standard mean more counties recognize unhealthy levels of pollution.
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ever plugged a volcano with a piece of legislation?
We are plagued with that deadly pollutant, nitrogen. We need world government regulation and taxation of all nitrogen gas.
In most parts of the country, we are probably the cleanest in the world. What does this say about them?
After decades of evermore repressive and destructive "regulations" from the EPA, we keep learning the air is more and more unhealthy.
How convenient for the EPA...
What would they have done if the study had concluded, "The air is fine, nothing more needs to be done?"
What’s the State of Your Air?
http://www.stateoftheair.org/
Typical “women and minorities affected most” pap in support of the green agenda ...
The fact is the air here is much, much cleaner than it was in the 60's and 70's, which was much cleaner than earlier in the century when coal was the main source of household heat.
So city living damages your body AND your soul. My, who could have predicted that.
"I don't care who own the Chiefs. I hate it here. It make me sick. My allergy, puke every time, bleugh! Like that, puke."
The air is pristeen now compared to air quality in the 50’s & 60’s.
Barbara Streisand.
Most of the 2 billion people living in China would be amazed at the quality of our air. Remember, they had to virtually shut down Beijing months ahead of the Olympics due to horrible air quality.
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