Our Health At Risk: Why Are Millions of Americans Still Breathing Unhealthy Air?
- Abstract
Despite decades of progress under the Clean Air Act, Americans across the country continue to breathe unhealthy air, leading to increased risk of premature death, asthma attacks and other adverse health impacts. This report details necessary actions to address the air pollution problems affecting people in communities across the country, and to avoid global warming-related increases in air pollution in the future.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Authors
- Elizabeth Ridlington Travis Madsen
- Date
- 2017
- Institution
- Environment Florida, Frontier Group
- Health and Human Impact
- Respiratory disease
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Air pollution
- Emission Sources
- Conventional energy Energy Conventional
- Solutions
- Climate mitigation/GHG reduction Renewable/clean energy
- Region
- Southeast
- Other
- Co-benefits/co-harms Social determinants of health