2025-04-27 17:00
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2025-04-27 17:00
Almost half of the United States (46 percent) population lives in areas where the air contains a healthy concentration of pollutants. Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 million people.
The alarming image of air quality is presented by the American Association for Lung Diseases (Alas). The report of this organization takes into account three categories of pollution: short -term pollution with solid particles, year -round pollution with solid particles and ozone pollution. For the sixth time in a row, Bakersfield in California was considered the most polluted city in the USA.
Other cities of this state were also in the infamous group, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as the Eugene-Springfield in Oregon, Houston-Pasinna in Texas and Cleveland-Akron-Canton in Ohio.
Although air pollution decreased by 78 percent. From the adoption of the Clean Air Act from 1970, in recent years there has been a clear increase in the level of harmful substances.
The CBS News station pointed out that climate change increases phenomena such as extreme heat, forest fires and drought. Extensive fires in Canada in 2023 strongly influenced air quality, especially in the US in the northeast of the USA. The problem once affecting mainly the west of the country is currently spreading east.
The Government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently announced a plan to withdraw from over 30 rules and regulations regarding air quality standards and vehicle emissions restrictions.
The head of EPA Lee Zeldin, appointed in January by US President Donald Trump, claims that deregulation will benefit American families and positively affect energy production. The American Pulmonology Association, however, warned that these changes may miss the decades of progress.
Air pollution is associated with many serious diseases: asthma, heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer and cognitive impairment. Black people suffer from disproportionately disproportionately suffered from polluted air, because the objects emitting pollution were long in areas in areas inhabited by economically marginalized communities.
From New York Andrzej Dobrowolski (PAP)
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