Allegheny County's $8 million Clean Air Fund soon might pay for Health Department facility costs -- not just fighting air pollution. The Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday to give tentative approval to a change in how the county spends money from air pollution fines over objections from environmental advocacy groups and a member of the board's Air Pollution Control Advisory Committee.
Staggering numbers quantifying the economic toll of air pollution were released last week reminding us that Californians pay a hefty price tag for breathing dirty air. Every year each person in the South Coast Air Basin pays $1,250, and $1,600 in the San Joaquin Valley to breathe bad air, according to researchers from Cal State Fullerton. A $28 billion combined price tag for poor air quality confirms that we not only pay for poor air with our lungs and lives, but we're pulling out our pocket books too. California has made tremendous progress toward improving air quality, but studies such as these sound the alarm bell warning us that we can no longer afford to hit the snooze button; we must wake up and take action to ensure future generations breathe cleaner air. Unfortunately, actions o...
... clean air commitments, protect public health and provide truckers with an adequate level of fle...
Staggering numbers quantifying the economic toll of air pollution were released last week reminding us that Californians pay a hefty price tag for breathing dirty air. Every year each person in the South Coast Air Basin pays $1,250, and $1,600 in the San Joaquin Valley to breathe bad air, according to researchers from Cal State Fullerton. A $28 billion combined price tag for poor air quality confirms that we not only pay for poor air with our lungs and lives, but we're pulling out our pocket books too. California has made tremendous progress toward improving air quality, but studies such as these sound the alarm bell warning us that we can no longer afford to hit the snooze button; we must wake up and take action to ensure future generations breathe cleaner air. Unfortunately, actions o...
... clean air commitments, protect public health and provide truckers with an adequate level of fle...
Environmentalists such as the GAG'M, the global anti-golf organization, are opposing golf course construction due to its potential environmental and human health costs. Golf course developments frequently result in the displacement of communities, destruction of habitats, water and air pollution due to heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides and depletion of public water supplies. However, the golf industry still continues to grow throughout the world, particularly in Southeast Asia as these countries try to promote tourism through new golf resorts.
SAN PEDRO - Big business is leaving taxpayers to foot the health- care costs generated by freight transport-generated air pollution in and around the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, according to a study released Tuesday. The report compared the costs of treating air pollution-linked illnesses like asthma and cancer to profits generated by businesses benefiting from cargo transported through California's seaports.
On May 3, 2011, under authority of Clean Air Act (CAA) sections 111 and 112, the EPA proposed both national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) from coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) and standards of performance for fossil-fuel-fired electric utility, industrial-commercial- institutional, and small industrial-commercial-institutional steam generating units (76 FR 24976). After consideration of public comments, the EPA is finalizing these rules in this action. Pursuant to CAA section 111, the EPA is revising standards of performance in response to a voluntary remand of a final rule. Specifically, we are amending new source performance standards (NSPS) after analysis of the public comments we received. We are also finalizing several mi...
... protects air quality and promotes public health by reducing emissions of the HAP listed in CAA sec...Judicial Review. D. What are the costs and benefits of these final rules?. II. Background... exchange in various areas of air pollution control. C. Judicial Review. Under CAA section...
The desire for good health is virtually universal. Many of us go to great lengths to maintain our health. In spite of these efforts, all of us have relatives or friends who have diseases caused by air pollution. Air pollution is now linked to six of the top seven causes of death among Americans. A partial list of these diseases includes the following, all drawn from peer-reviewed studies published in leading medical journals: premature mortality from all causes, asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, lung cancer, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, fatal abnormalities of heart rhythm, stroke and the loss of intellectual capacity. Emerging data suggest that Type II diabetes mellitus and possibly Alzheimer's disease may be linked to air pollution.
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TRENTON - Diesel exhaust from trucks and school buses causes much of the air pollution that is hurting New Jerseyans' health and elevating health-care costs, according to a new report. The Clean Air Council, an advisory body to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, said in its annual report, released July 13, that air pollution continues to be worse in minority and low-income communities, which are often located in urban centers with more vehicle traffic and factory smokestacks.
Despite modest gains in recent years, most of the Long Beach-Los Angeles metropolis continues suffering from the nation's poorest air quality, putting millions at risk for respiratory disease, cancer and early death, according to a new study. A national American Lung Association study released Wednesday found that 91 percent of Californians - about 33 million people - live in areas deemed to have "failing" air quality grades caused primarily by vehicle exhaust, oil refineries, power plants, trains, ships and a host of other sources.
... is improving and average numbers of pollution days are becoming less and less, but we have to re...The tremendous health costs of air pollution and the resulting burden pl...
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