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Hearing targets smog ingredient
- Los Angeles Daily News
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8/31/2007 |
| Public health professionals and environmentalists on Thursday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen ozone-pollution-control standards in Southern California, saying it would dramatically reduce the death rate caused by smog. | |
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Lost in the ozone
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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8/30/2007 |
| WHEN FEDERAL clean-air experts visit the state with the nation's dirtiest skies, California should give them an earful. That's likely to happen today at a Los Angeles hearing on ozone, a lung-searing ingredient of smog. | |
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Ozone Obligation; The EPA should follow its own scientific panel's recommendation and tighten air-quality rules
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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8/30/2007 |
| That stuff you're breathing could be killing you. Most Angelenos refer to the brown haze blanketing the city as smog, but more technically it's a noxious mix of particulate matter and gases, the prime ingredient being ozone. Most of our ozone comes from cars, trucks and other vehicles, but it's also produced by smokestacks, wet paint and other sources. It makes asthma worse and might even cause it; ozone also irritates the lungs and can kill those with respiratory problems, especially children and the elderly. | |
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Climate Change and Air Pollution
- KQED - The California Report (new window)
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10/31/2007 |
| Listen to a story about Environment California's new report that looks at the connection between global warming and smog pollution. | |
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Valley smog could rise as climate warms; Greenhouse gases nurture ozone, new report warns
- Fresno Bee (new window)
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10/30/2007 |
| As global warming drives temperatures higher, air pollution problems could get worse in the smoggy San Joaquin Valley, an advocacy group warns in a report scheduled for release today. | |
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