Air Pollution

This article was originally featured on High Country News. When recalling recent summers in the West, it’s impossible not to conjure up images of valleys choked with smoke, eerie red suns and familiar skylines bathed in an unnatural bright orange glow. So it might come as no surprise that parts…

A “new peak of air pollution” every August exposes as many as 130 million people to harmful chemicals Smoke from wildfires fills the air around the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Credit: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images A rise in pollutants from forest fires in…

The 2022 "State of the Air" report from the American Lung Association reveals that more 137 million Americans live in places with unhealthy levels of air pollution. It's an increase of 2.1 million people from the previous year. Paul Billings, senior vice president of advocacy for the American Lung Association,…

(CNN)The US saw the highest number of "very unhealthy" and "hazardous" air quality days between 2018 and 2020 than it ever had before, according to a report released Thursday by the American Lung Association. After a steady 23-year decline in US pollution levels through 2017, the American Lung Association's State…

Greenridge Generation – a power generation and Bitcoin mining company – reportedly faces an “uphill battle” in staying compliant with New York state’s environmental law. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is currently under pressure from a regional activist group to have the facility shut down. The Fight to Reach…

In a media statement on 11 April, Barbara Creecy framed her decision to contest the court ruling simply as a desire to seek legal clarity on whether she was obliged to make new regulations — or whether she had the discretion to make new regulations in a manner that she…

The increase in the number of people dying prematurely from exposure to air pollution was highest in cities in South Asia. Topics air pollution | premature deaths | Air quality IANS  |  New Delhi  Last Updated at April 9, 2022 09:43 IST The increase in the number of people dying prematurely from exposure to…

There is "strong evidence" of systemic racial and ethnic bias in air pollution control across California, according to a new study from UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). Researchers assessed air pollution data from before the coronavirus pandemic began and as California's first stay-at-home order was…

Cities in the tropics are experiencing a growing air pollution problem, which is estimated to have led to a 62 per cent rise in premature deaths since 2005 Environment 8 April 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Mumbai, India, a city in the tropics with a growing population Ivaylo Daskalov/Alamy Some…

The international team of scientists aimed to address data gaps in air quality for 46* future megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East using space-based observations from instruments onboard NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) satellites for 2005 to 2018. Published today in Science Advances, the study reveals rapid…