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Taxonomy Archive: air pollution
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Pollution hits low-income communities hardest
There are a lot of questions surrounding California climate policy right now. For me, growing up in Watts, Los Angeles, the most important question is: how will state climate policies help low-income communities and communities of color?
20 Apr 2018 |
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American Thoracic Society and Marron Institute Report Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above American Thoracic Society–Recommended Standards, 2011–2013
Estimates of the health impacts of air pollution are needed to make informed air quality management decisions at both the national and local levels. Using design values of ambient pollution concentrations from 2011–2013 as a baseline, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Marron Institute of Urban Management estimated excess ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Your Health: Air Contamination
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Designed to enable the extraction of previously untapped gas and oil reserves, fracking pumps a high-pressure mixture of toxic chemicals and water underground to fracture deep shale rock formations. The ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: Harm on the Farm
The process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a newer and more dangerous version of natural gas and oil extraction. Hydraulic fracturing requires the high-pressure pumping of millions of gallons of a chemical mixture, called hydraulic fracturing fluid, into the ground in order to fracture shale rock formations and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Death in the Air: Air Pollution Costs Money and Lives
Air pollution has emerged as the fourth-leading risk factor for deaths worldwide. While pollution-related deaths mainly strike young children and the elderly, these deaths also result in lost labor income for working-age men and women. The loss of life is tragic. The cost to the economy is substantial. The infographic below is mainly ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Toward an Understanding of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts of Unconventional Natural Gas Development: A Categorical Assessment of the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature, 2009-2015
The body of science evaluating the potential impacts of unconventional natural gas development (UNGD) has grown significantly in recent years, although many data gaps remain. Still, a broad empirical understanding of the impacts is beginning to emerge amidst a swell of research. The present categorical assessment provides an overview ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change
Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Latino Commnities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into our air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane in the U.S. But methane […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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How rising carbon is changing seasonal allergies
Nasal sprays, eye drops, pills, melts and inhalers fill the pharmacy shelves. Kids are kept inside with windows shut, parents struggle through work with bright red, itchy eyes, soccer practices are skipped and allergy shots begun. This is the face of allergies, circa 2015. If you think allergies are worse than they used to be, […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Our children need cleaner air
As a pediatrician practicing in Houston, I understand all too well how much our county’s “F” grade for ozone in our air affects my young patients. I recently testified at a public hearing in Arlington held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about just how dangerous this poor air quality is for children. My ...